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A Walk to the River in Amazonia - Ordinary Reality for the Mehinaku Indians (Hardcover)
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A Walk to the River in Amazonia - Ordinary Reality for the Mehinaku Indians (Hardcover)
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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.'
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