Author: Fabian, Stephen Michael Title: Space-Time of the Bororo of Brazil
Description: Gainesville, University Press of Florida, (1992). orig.cloth. 23x15cm, xiii,253 pp. Textual photos,folding chart. Minor rubbing & soil to binding, VG. ¶ Contents: The Bororo & Indigenous Space-Time; The Dynamics of Personal & Societal Growth: The Myth of Toribugu; Village Organization & Spatial Orientation; The Life Course; Cycles of Time in Nature; The Meri-doge: Sun & Moon as Celestial Bodies & Mythical Heroes; The Stars as a Paradigm of Order; Structure & Process in Bororo Society; A Fuller Comprehension of Indigenous Space-Time Constructs; An End & a Beginning; Appendices: Significant Celestial Phenomena; Celestial Cross-Reference; Plant & Animal Species.
Keywords: Cognitive Anthropology, Mato Grosso Brazil, Cultural Cognition, Native Americans, Bororo Ethnography, Ethnology Astronomy, Cosmology Sociology, Ethnoastronomy, South America
Price: US$ 59.00 Seller: Expatriate Bookshop of Denmark
- Book number: BOOKS007534I