The Palm and the Pleiades: Initiation and Cosmology in Northwest Amazonia (Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural...

Features

• Cover Type: Paperback with 356 pages
• Published by: Cambridge University Press April 29, 1988
• Written in: English
• ISBN 10 Number: 0521358906
• ISBN 13 Number: 978-0521358903
• Book Dimensions: 8.8 x 6.1 x 1 inches
• Weighs: 1.2 pounds

Product Description
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.

Book Description
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.