Families of the forest : the Matsigenka Indians of the Peruvian Amazon / Allen Johnson.

The idea of a family level society assumes moving, breathing form in Families of the Forest. According to Allen Johnson's ethnography, the Matsigenka people of southeastern Peru cannot be understood or appreciated except as a family level society; the family level of sociocultural integration i...

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Online Access:	Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author:	Johnson, Allen W.
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2003.
Series:	Hellenistic culture and society ; 43.
Subjects:	Machiguenga Indians > Kinship. Machiguenga cosmology. Machiguenga Indians > Social life and customs. Amazon River Region > Social life and customs. Machiguenga cosmology Machiguenga Indians > Social life and customs Manners and customs Amazon River Region