The palm and the Pleiades
Subtitle: initiation and cosmology in northwest Amazonia
By: Stephen Hugh-Jones.
Series: Cambridge studies in social anthropology ; 24
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1979
Place of publication: Cambridge; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 332
Subjects: Barasana Indians -- Rites and ceremonies.; Barasana Indians -- Religion.; Barasana mythology.
Notes: Bibliography: p. 317-322.
Based on the author's thesis, Cambridge University, 1974, which was presented under title: Male initiation and cosmology among the Barasana Indians of the Vaupés area of Colombia.
Includes indexes.