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Under the Rainbow - Nature and Supernature among the Panare Indians (Paperback)
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Under the Rainbow - Nature and Supernature among the Panare Indians (Paperback)
Series: Texas Pan American Series
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Loot Price R563
Discovery Miles 5 630
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This ethnographic study of the Panare Indians of Venezuela is the
first extensive look at a tribe of this region of the Amazonia. It
is an important book not only because it delves into the
myth-filled Panare culture, but also because the author has used a
modified version of the structural analysis of Claude Levi-Strauss
in examining the Panare. Levi-Strauss applied his method of
structural analysis to the mythology of many societies in Amazonia,
but never to any single society. Jean-Paul Dumont has filled that
gap and has shown how the approach works in practice when applied
to the intensive study of a single, small-scale culture. His book
significantly expands the discussion of the strengths and
weaknesses of the method. The work deals specifically with the
implicit mythology of the Panare and is concerned with the symbolic
activities manifested in the daily behavior of this group. The
analysis of the symbolism, explains Dumont, allows for the
discovery of the conceptual system through which the Panare
conceive of themselves. The study is organized into two parts: a
presentation of the data and an analysis. The presentation includes
a geographical and historical account of the Panare and a general
ethnological profile. The analysis is organized into the conceptual
categories of inhabited space, time, astrosexuality, hearing, and
taste. A concluding chapter summarizes the analysis. Under the
Rainbow will be of interest and of value not only to
anthropologists but also to linguists, philosophers, psychologists,
and others interested in the general intellectual movement
represented by French structuralism. The fieldwork for Under the
Rainbow was conducted in Venezuelan Guiana from September 1967 to
July 1969.
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