In the Society of Nature : A Native Ecology in Amazonia

Descola Philippe; Philippe Descola; Nora Scott
Cambridge University Press
9780521411035
0-521-41103-3

The Achuar Indians of the Upper Amazon have developed sophisticated strategies of resource management. The author documents their knowledge of the environment, and explains how it is interwoven with cosmological.

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ideas that endow nature with the characteristics of society.