O significado do nome
Subtitle: cosmologia e nominação entre os pirahã
By: Marco Antonio Gonçalves.
Publisher: Sette Letras
Published: 1993
Place of publication: Rio de Janeiro
Language: por
Number of pages: 170
Subjects: htp://www.iremar.com.br/nomes/; Pirahá philosophy.; Pirahá Indians -- Religion.; Pirahá dialect -- Etymology -- Names.
Description: "The system of personal names among the Mura-Pirahá of southeastern Amazonas, a group little-known in ethnographic literature, is the starting point. Using the logic of this naming system, author elucidates themes in cosmology, sociability, ritual, eschatology, cannibalism, warfare, identity, and alterity. A contribution to structuralist analysis of classification systems"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 57.
Notes: Include bibliographical reference (p. 165-167).
Slightly revised version of the author's thesis (master's--Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro) under the title: Nomes e cosmos : sociedade e cosmologia mura-pirahã.