Of Passionate Curves and Desirable Cadences
Subtitle: Themes on Waiwai Social Being
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Published: June 1, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 378
ISBN-13: 9780803231757
Subjects: Cultural studies; Indigenous peoples; Social theory; Social life and customs; Ethnic Studies - Native American Studies; Social Science; Archaeology / Anthropology; Sociology; North America; South America; Anthropology - Cultural; Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural; Anthropology - General; Rites and ceremonies; Waiwai Indians; Waiwai philosophy
Description: "Of Passionate Curves and Desirable Cadences reveals the vital cultural interconnections at the heart of a rain-forest Amerindian society. The Waiwai, who live in the remote interior of Guyana and in neighboring Brazil, follow a customary subsistence lifestyle built around swidden agriculture and hunting." "How do the Waiwai experience and think about themselves and their place in the so-called modern world around them? The anthropologist George Mentore draws on years of living with the Waiwai, a theoretical perspective grounded in ethnographic subjectivity, and his own Guyanese heritage to depict the social and cultural world of the Waiwai."--Jacket.