Kinship with Monkeys: The Guajá Foragers of Eastern Amazonia

Loretta A. Cormier

Paper, 288 pages, 10 illus
ISBN: 978-0-231-12525-3
$36.00 / £21.00

October, 2003
Cloth, 288 pages, 10 illus
ISBN: 978-0-231-12524-6
$82.50 / £48.50

Introduction

1. A Brief History of the Guaja

2. A Brief History of New World Monkeys

3. Monkey Hunting

4. Guaja Kinship

5. Animism and the Forest Siblings

6. Pet Monkeys

7. Cosmology and Symbolic Cannibalism

Conclusion. Ethnoprimatology in Amazonia and Beyond

Appendix. Monkeys in the Guaja Habitat

Related Subjects

• Ecology

Series

• Historical Ecology Series

About the Author

Loretta A. Cormier is an assistant professor of anthropology at the University of Alabama in Birmingham.

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