Carla Stang

(Author)

A Walk to the River in Amazonia: Ordinary Reality for the Mehinaku IndiansPaperback, 1 November 2011

A Walk to the River in Amazonia: Ordinary Reality for the Mehinaku Indians
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Print Length
248 pages
Language
English
Publisher
Berghahn Books
Date Published
1 Nov 2011
ISBN-10
0857451553
ISBN-13
9780857451552

Description

Our lives are mostly composed of ordinary reality -- the flow of moment-to-moment existence -- and yet it has been largely overlooked as a subject in itself for anthropological study. In this work, the author achieves an understanding of this part of reality for the Mehinaku Indians, an Amazonian people, in two stages: first by observing various aspects of their experience and second by relating how these different facets come to play in a stream of ordinary consciousness, a walk to the river. In this way, abstract schemata such as 'cosmology, ' 'sociality, ' 'gender, ' and the 'everyday' are understood as they are actually lived. This book contributes to the ethnography of the Amazon, specifically the Upper Xingu, with an approach that crosses disciplinary boundaries between anthropology, philosophy, and psychology. In doing so it attempts to comprehend what Malinowski called the 'imponderabilia of actual life.'

Product Details

Author:
Carla Stang
Book Format:
Paperback
Country of Origin:
US
Date Published:
1 November 2011
Dimensions:
22.86 x 15.24 x 1.3 cm
ISBN-10:
0857451553
ISBN-13:
9780857451552
Language:
English
Location:
New York, NY
Pages:
248
Publisher:
Weight:
326.59 gm

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