Spears of Twilight
Subtitle: Life and Death in the Amazon Jungle
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Limited
Published: 1996
Language: eng
Number of pages: 458
ISBN-13: 9780002556095
Subjects: Amazon river and valley, social conditions; Amazon river and valley
Description: The Achuar people have survived in isolation in the Amazonian jungle by aggressively resisting intruders. In this book, Descola depicts an altogether unfamiliar civilisation, whose values often seem bizarre to Western eyes.