How real people ought to live
Subtitle: the Cashinahua of eastern Peru
By: Kenneth M. Kensinger.
Publisher: Waveland Press
Published: 1995
Place of publication: Prospect Heights, Ill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 305
Subjects: Cashinawa Indians -- Social life and customs.; Indians of South America -- Peru -- Social life and customs.
Description: "Collection of author's essays written over the last 25 years on the Cashinawa of the Curanja and upper Purús Rivers in eastern Peru. Includes a sequence of short ethnographies on diverse aspects of Cashinawa society and culture: subsistence activities, gender roles and sexuality, social organization, political organization, religion, and culture change"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 57.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 293-298) and index.