The palm and the Pleiades : initiation and cosmology in northwest Amazonia / Stephen Hugh-Jones.

  • Hugh-Jones, Stephen, 1945-
Date:
1979
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Publication/Creation

Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1979.

Physical description

xvi, 332 pages, 2 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations, map ; 24 cm.

Notes

Based on the author's thesis, Cambridge University, 1974, which was presented under title: Male initiation and cosmology among the Barasana Indians of the Vaupés area of Colombia

Bibliographic information

Includes indexes and bibliography: p. 317-322

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    History of Medicine
    ZEQ.791
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  • 0521219523