Author: HUGH-JONES, STEPHEN
Title: The Palm and the Pleiades: MISPRINT
Description: Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology no. 24, 1979.. Initiation and Cosmology in Northwest Amazonia. First edition. MISPRINT collector's item 332 p., text illustrations, bibliogr., index HARDCOVER: (Orig. red gilt. cloth binding, name stamp. AS NEW wirh VERY GOOD dust jacket) ¶ Rare hardcover of the very FIRST edition with printing errors. Pages 45 till 77 are missing, but 109 till 140 are twicre printed. .Account of a South American Indian religious and cosmological system . The book is also a more general exercise in the anthropological interpretation of ritual, myth and religious symbolism from a structuralist point of view (Levi-Strauss).

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