Families of the Forest: The Matsigenka Indians of the Peruvian Amazon

by Allen Johnson

Book Overview

The idea of a family level society, discussed and disputed by anthropologists for nearly half a century, assumes moving, breathing form in Families of the Forest. According to Allen Johnson's deft ethnography, the Matsigenka people of southeastern Peru cannot be understood or appreciated except as a family level society; the family level of sociocultural integration is for them a lived reality. Under ordinary circumstances, the largest...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520232429
• ISBN13: 9780520232426
• Release Date: April 2003
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 275 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.0"