The Palm and the Pleiades: Initiation and Cosmology in Northwest Amazonia
- Publisher : Cambridge University Press
- Illustrations : 4 b/w plates, 14 figs, 3 maps
Description:
Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology no. 24. The first extended study in English of Amazonian ritual, focussing on Yurupary, a secret men’s cult widespread throughout Northwest Amazonia.
Condition
Vg in d/w. Light spotting to top edge.