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Author Castro, Eduardo Batalha Viveiros de.

Title From the enemy's point of view : humanity and divinity in an Amazonian society / Eduardo Viveiros de Castro ; translated by Catherine V. Howard.

Publication Info. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [1992]
©1992

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 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  299.883 C355F    Check Shelf
Description xx, 407 pages : : illustrations ; ; 24 cm
Contents 1 Cosmology and Society -- 2 Approaching the Arawete -- 3 The Forsaken Ones -- 4 The Frame of Life -- 5 Nurture and Supernature -- 6 Familiar Terms -- 7 Birth, and Copulation, and Death -- 8 Alien Words -- 9 Beings of Becoming -- 10 The Anti-Narcissus -- Appendix 1-A: Arawete Villages in 1981-83 -- Appendix 1-B: List of Historical Arawete Villages -- Appendix 2-A: Arawete Population -- Appendix 2-B: Genealogies -- Appendix 3: Botanical and Zoological Terms (English, Portuguese, Arawete, Latin) -- Appendix 4: Glossary of Arawete Terms.
Note Translation of: Araweté.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subject Indians of South America -- Brazil -- Religion.
Cannibalism -- Brazil.
Araweté Indians.
Indian mythology -- Brazil -- South America.
Local Subject Indigenous peoples -- South America -- Brazil -- Religion.
Subject Tupi Indians -- Religion and mythology.
Local Subject Spirituality -- Indigenous -- Brazil -- South America.
ISBN 0226858022 paperback alka paper
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