Families of the Forest
Subtitle: The Matsigenka Indians of the Peruvian Amazon
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: April 15, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 275
ISBN-13: 9780520232426
Subjects: Ethnography; Family & relationships; Indigenous peoples; Machiguenga cosmology; Archaeology / Anthropology; Social Science; Sociology; Peru; Anthropology - Cultural; Social Science / Anthropology / General; Anthropology - General; Amazon River Region; Kinship; Machiguenga Indians; Social life and customs
First sentence: Although The Matsigenka have, perhaps for millena, occupied a historically important crossroads, their practice appears to have been to minimize contact with the larger world rather than to confront and try to control it.