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A Walk to the River in Amazonia : Ordinary Reality for the Mehinaku Indians / Carla Stang.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York ; Oxford : Berghahn Books, [2009]Copyright date: ©2009Description: 1 online resource (248 p.)Content type:
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  • 9781845455552
  • 9781845459314
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 155.849839
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Plates -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Pronouncing Mehinaku Words -- Glossary -- Introduction -- 1 My Walk -- 2 Configurations in Mehinaku Experience -- 3 Dynamic Aspects in Mehinaku Experience -- 4 Experience of Mehinaku Experience -- 5 Experience of the Mehinaku Social World -- 6 Some Conclusions -- 7 Her Walk -- Cross References from the Description to Chapters 2–5 -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary: Our lives are mostly composed of ordinary reality — the flow of moment-to-moment existence — and yet it has been largely overlooked as a subject in itself for anthropological study. In this work, the author achieves an understanding of this part of reality for the Mehinaku Indians, an Amazonian people, in two stages: first by observing various aspects of their experience and second by relating how these different facets come to play in a stream of ordinary consciousness, a walk to the river. In this way, abstract schemata such as ‘cosmology,’ ‘sociality,’ ‘gender,’ and the ‘everyday’ are understood as they are actually lived. This book contributes to the ethnography of the Amazon, specifically the Upper Xingu, with an approach that crosses disciplinary boundaries between anthropology, philosophy, and psychology. In doing so it attempts to comprehend what Malinowski called the ‘imponderabilia of actual life.’
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Plates -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Pronouncing Mehinaku Words -- Glossary -- Introduction -- 1 My Walk -- 2 Configurations in Mehinaku Experience -- 3 Dynamic Aspects in Mehinaku Experience -- 4 Experience of Mehinaku Experience -- 5 Experience of the Mehinaku Social World -- 6 Some Conclusions -- 7 Her Walk -- Cross References from the Description to Chapters 2–5 -- Bibliography -- Index

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Our lives are mostly composed of ordinary reality — the flow of moment-to-moment existence — and yet it has been largely overlooked as a subject in itself for anthropological study. In this work, the author achieves an understanding of this part of reality for the Mehinaku Indians, an Amazonian people, in two stages: first by observing various aspects of their experience and second by relating how these different facets come to play in a stream of ordinary consciousness, a walk to the river. In this way, abstract schemata such as ‘cosmology,’ ‘sociality,’ ‘gender,’ and the ‘everyday’ are understood as they are actually lived. This book contributes to the ethnography of the Amazon, specifically the Upper Xingu, with an approach that crosses disciplinary boundaries between anthropology, philosophy, and psychology. In doing so it attempts to comprehend what Malinowski called the ‘imponderabilia of actual life.’

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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