In the society of nature
Subtitle: a native ecology in Amazonia
By: Philippe Descola ; translated from the French by Nora Scott.
Series: Cambridge studies in social and cultural anthropology ;; 93
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1994
Place of publication: Cambridge [England]; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 372
Subjects: Achuar Indians -- Agriculture; Achuar Indians -- Social conditions; Achuar Indians -- Religion; Human ecology -- Amazon River Region; Subsistence economy -- Amazon River Region; Conservation of natural resources -- Amazon River Region
Description: "English translation of author's masterful and important study, originally published in French (Paris: Maison des sciences de l'homme, 1986) and translated into Spanish (1992). Provides ethnographic description and analysis of the symbolic and technical relations of the Achuar to the Amazon environment. This pioneering model of a synthetic ecological/symbolic approach investigates dynamic interactions between techniques used in socializing nature and the symbolic systems that sustain these interactions. Overcomes previous limitations of materialist ecological and conceptual symbolic analyses. The value of this contribution is its understanding of the Achuar process of domesticating nature and of the long-run implications of this process for resource use in the Amazon environment"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 57.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 345-354) and indexes.