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Kinship with Monkeys The Guajá Foragers of Eastern Amazonia (Historical Ecology
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Kinship with Monkeys The Guajá Foragers of Eastern Amazonia (Historical Ecology Series) Hardcover - 2003

by Loretta A. Cormier


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Intrigued by a slide showing a woman breast-feeding a monkey, anthropologist Loretta A. Cormier spent 15 months living among the Guaja, a foraging people in a remote area of Brazil. The result is this ethnographic study of the extraordinary relationship between the Guaja Indians and monkeys. While monkeys are a key food source for the Guaja, certain pet monkeys have a quasi-human status. Some infant monkeys are adopted and nurtured as human children, while others are consumed in ritual practices of symbolic cannibalism. central theme of Cormier's research: how can monkeys be both eaten as food and nurtured as children? Her research reveals that monkeys play a vital role in Guaja society, ecology, economy and religion. In Guaja animistic beliefs all forms of plant and animal life - especially monkeys - have souls and are woven into a comprehensive kinship system. Therefore, all consumption can be considered a form of cannibalism. beyond Amazonia, including a discussion of Western perceptions of primates.

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The early history of the Guaja is not well known, but they probably originated on the lower Tocantins River and, like numerous other groups, migrated eastward in the wake of colonization.

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  • Title Kinship with Monkeys The Guajá Foragers of Eastern Amazonia (Historical Ecology Series)
  • Author Loretta A. Cormier
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Publisher Columbia University Press
  • Date September 2003
  • ISBN 9780231125246
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Kinship with Monkeys: The Guajá Foragers of Eastern Amazonia [The Historical Ecology Series]

by Cormier, Loretta A.; with original illustrations by James P. Cormier.

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Columbia University Press, New York, 2003. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo, hardcover. No dj. Vg+ condition. Single non-circulating ex-lib stamp on 1 early pg (only marking), 2 tiny nicks to edge of rear board, contents bright, crisp & clean. xxvi, 234 p., illus., map.
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