Publication

1993 - Harvard University Center for the Study of World Religions, Cambridge, Mass, Massachusetts

Language

English

Word Count

77,000 words, Guess

Page Count

308 pages

Identifiers

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  • LibraryThing1233348

Classifications

  • DDC299/.882
  • LCCF2319.2.W3 W514 1993

Description

"Collection includes some of the author's most important essays written during 25 years of research among the Warao of the Orinoco Delta. Focus is on religious life, for which author provides in-depth comparative and historical interpretations of the symbolic values the Warao bestow on environmental, material, and social processes, revealing how Warao experience of life and the material conditions of existence are endowed with religious and mystical significance. This approach, outside of studies of the Guarani, has rarely been explored in South American ethnology"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 57.

Subjects

Topics

ReligionHuman ecologyWarao IndiansWarao philosophyWarao philosophy.Warao Indians -- Religion.Indians of south america, religion

Series Statement

  • Religions of the world

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