Title: From the enemy's point of view
First published: 1992
Description: "Translated and revised version of author's 1986 doctoral thesis, one of the most influential monographs in Brazilian ethnology of the last decade. Describes and interprets cosmology and social philosophy of the Araweté, a Tupi-Guarani people of eastern Amazonia, from the perspective of concepts of the person, death and eschatology, divinity, and systems of shamanism and warfare. The theme of divine cannibalism is treated as part of the complex of Tupi-Guarani ritual anthropophagy"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 57.
Subjects: Religion, Araweté Indians, Tupi Indians, Indians of South America, Cannibalism, Religion and mythology, Indian mythology, Indians of south america, religion, Araweté indians
Places: Brazil
LC classification: F2520.1.A77 C3713 1992