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Amazonian Cosmos,
By Osvaldo Garcia Goyco, MA., Ph.D. Candidate (Caguas, Puerto Rico, United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Amazonian Cosmos: The Sexual and Religious Symbolism of the Tukano Indians (Phoenix Books) (Paperback)
This book, written by one of the best modern ethnologists, is a must for specialists as well as general readers interested in obtaining a profound view of the cosmology of Amazonian Indians. It provides the reader with a model for symbolic interpretation of rituals, myths, deities, astronomical cycles and everyday life aspects of the Desana, an ethnic indigenous group that lives near the Colombian Vaupés River. The author uses a linguistic approach to analyze the detailed interviews with his informants, who are acculturated shamans, whom describe to minimum detail the symbolic meaning of their spiritual and material culture. The index is very useful for research of particular themes.
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