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In the Society of Nature: A Native Ecology in Amazonia (Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology, Series Number 93)

PaperbackOctober 13, 1996
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ISBN-13: 9780521574679 ISBN-10: 0521574676
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Binding
Paperback
Published
October 13, 1996
Weight
1.3 lbs
Dimensions
22.90×2.50×15.20 cm

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In the Society of Nature: A Native Ecology in Amazonia (Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology, Series Number 93) by Descola, Philippe. Paperback edition. ISBN: 9780521574679.

The Achuar Indians of the Upper Amazon have developed sophisticated strategies of resource management. The author documents their knowledge of the environment, and explains how it is interwoven with cosmological ideas that endow nature with the characteristics of society.