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Trekking through history : the Huaorani of Amazonian Ecuador

Author: Laura M Rival
Publisher: New York : Columbia University Press, ©2002.
Series: Historical ecology series.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Rival presents a comprehensive academic study of the Huaorani, correcting distorted portrayals of them by journalists, missionaries, environmentalists, and tour guides as 'Ecuador's last savages'.
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Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Laura M Rival
ISBN: 0231118449 9780231118446 0231118457 9780231118453
OCLC Number: 47623883
Description: xx, 246 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Contents: Trekking in Amazonia --
The upper Amazon from Omagua expansion to Zaparo collapse --
The time and space of Huaorani nomadic isolationism --
Harvesting the forest's natural abundance --
Coming back to the longhouse --
Eëmë festivals: ceremonial increase and marriage alliance --
Schools in the rain forest --
Prey at the center.
Series Title: Historical ecology series.
Responsibility: Laura M. Rival.

Abstract:

Rival presents a comprehensive academic study of the Huaorani, correcting distorted portrayals of them by journalists, missionaries, environmentalists, and tour guides as 'Ecuador's last savages'.

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