Makuna
Subtitle: portrait of an Amazonian people
By: Kaj Århem ; photographs by Diego Samper.
Contributors: Samper, Diego.
Publisher: Smithsonian Institution Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Washington
Language: eng
Number of pages: 172
Subjects: Macuna Indians -- Rites and ceremonies; Macuna Indians -- Religion; Macuna philosophy; Shamanism -- Uaupés River Valley (Colombia and Brazil); Uaupés River Valley (Colombia and Brazil) -- Social life and customs
Description: "The Makuna of eastern Colombia inhabit an Amazonian rain forest teeming with plant and animal life that provides them not only with a livelihood but also with cultural inspiration that infuses their daily life and frequent ritual performances.".

"In full-color photographs and an evocative text, Diego Samper and Kaj Arhem celebrate the natural surroundings, domestic life, and vibrant rituals of a rain-forest people whose cultural future is being jeopardized by outsiders' destruction of their lands."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 167-168) and index.