Amazonian cosmos

Literature & Fiction

Reichel-Dolmatoff, Gerardo

History & Criticism

University of Chicago Press

Amazonian Cosmos: The Sexual and Religious Symbolism of the Tukano Indians

Politics & Social Sciences

Anthropology

Univ of Chicago Pr

Aritama is a small Mestizo peasant community in the tropical mountain country of northern Colombia, in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta. Originally an Indian village, it was occupied during the second half of the last century by Creoles from the lowlands. It is now striving to escape its isolation and its Indian past to win acceptance as part of the national Creole peasantry.

People of Aritama

De Reichel, Alicia D.

The People of Aritama: The Cultural Personality of a Colombian Mestizo Village

This book covers the life of a small Mestizo community in Columbia, with its people and institutions, its traditions in the past and its outlook on the future. Chapters include: · information on the health and nutritional status of the community * discussion of formal education and certain sets of patterned attitudes such as those which refer to work, illness, food and personal prestige. Originally published in 1961.

Reichel-Dolmatoff, Alicia

Social Sciences

Routledge

. 1972, bright clean copy, with dustjacket, no markings, Professional booksellers since 1981

San Agustin: A culture of Colombia (Art and civilization of Indian America)

Thames and Hudson

Beyond the Milky Way: Hallucinatory Imagery of the Tukano Indians (UCLA Latin American Studies, Vol. 42)

Religion & Spirituality

Other Religions, Practices & Sacred Texts

UCLA Latin American Center

Study of aboriginal basketry from the Colombian Northwest Amazon. Contains numerous diagrams and black and white photos.

Basketry As Metaphor: Arts and Crafts of the Desana Indians of the Northwest Amazon (Occasional Papers Series No. 5)

Arts & Photography

Univ of California Museum of

Gerardo Reichel-Dolmatoff spent much of his life studying the oral culture of the Tukano Indians in the Northwest Amazon, including twenty years simply learning the four key Tukanoan languages. Through his translations and commentaries of the yuruparí fertility mythologem and ritual complex, Tukano oral art is revealed as an important expression of tribal philosophical and religious thought. 
 The four Tukano "texts" in this volume "speak of emotions, paint images, and construct sceneries." They contain coded cultural history and lead us into the meaning of oral traditions: meaning contained in admonitions, instructions, and explanations which constitute the fundamental precepts of social customs, conflict resolution, gender attitudes, and ecology. Reichel-Dolmatoff places the analytical study of South American oral art on a par with the great exegetic traditions of the Old World.

Yuruparí: Studies of an Amazonian Foundation Myth (Religions of the World)

Center for the Study of World Religions

The Forest Within gives a detailed portrait of how an aboriginal tribe of the remote Amazonian region understands the cosmic of its partnership with the rainforest. The author explores the world-view of the Tukano Indians: their view of the forest as part of the cosmos; the Master (Spirit Guardian) of the Animals; their complex and multi-dimensional bond with their environment; and their social sexual restrictions in order to achieve ecological sustainability.

The Forest Within: The World-view of the Tukano Amazonian Indians

Business & Money

Economics

Council Oaks Distribution

This book is an ethnological study in depth, of the worldview religious philosophy, and symbolic systems of a South American tribal society which neither conforms to the Andean pattern nor to that of tropical rainforest cultures. The Kogi Indians have created for themselves a world of colourful and, to Western eyes, absorbing dimensions.

The Sacred Mountain of Colombia's Kogi Indians (Iconography of Religions)

Brill Academic Pub

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