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In the Society of Nature: A Native Ecology in Amazonia

by Descola, Philippe (1996)

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The Achuar Indians of the Upper Amazon have developed sophisticated strategies of resource management. The author documents their knowledge of the environment, and explains how it is interwoven with cosmological ideas that endow nature with the characteristics of society.

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