When it was first published in 1979, this book, together with its
companion volume, From the Milk River, by Christine Hugh-Jones, was
hailed as setting 'a new standard for South American ethnographers,
one to be emulated' (Third World Quarterly). Both are now available
for the first time in paperback. The book is an extended study in
English of Amazonian ritual. Through an analysis of a secret men's
cult widespread throughout Northwest Amazonia, Hugh-Jones builds up
a general picture of a South American Indian society, and of a
religious and cosmological system that is common to a large area of
Northwest Amazonia. The book is also an exercise in the
anthropological interpretation of ritual, myth and religious
symbolism from a structuralist point of view.
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