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Amazon Journey: An Anthropologist's
Year Among Brazil's Mekranoti Indians. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1984.(2nd edition, Engelwood Cliffs,NJ: Prentice Hall. 1990) Personal account of research among Amazonian Indians. Discussion of quantitative research techniques mixed with portraits of different Indians' life histories, social structure, ceremonial life. |
CONTENTS
Preface vi
1 Origins 1
2 A First Glimpse 10
3 Settling In 21
4 Learning Kayapo 34
5 Jaguars and Scorpions 45
6 Deaths 58
7 On Trek to the Sabuji 69
8 Summer Doldrums 82
9 After Peccaries and Fish 93
10 In the Gardens 104
11 The Women Sing 116
12 Honey Bees and Monkey Business 129
13 Gathering Tortoises 140
14 Back in the Viliage 152
15 On Trek Again 164
16 In the Men's House 175
17 Going Horne 186
18 Epilogue 194
Afterword 196
Personal Names 201
Glossary 205
Additional Information on the Kayapo 206
Index 208