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Author Brown, Michael F. (Michael Fobes), 1950- author.

Title Upriver : the turbulent life and times of an Amazonian people / Michael F. Brown
Published Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London, England : Harvard University Press, 2014
©2014

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Description 1 online resource (321 pages) : illustrations
Contents Andean prelude -- Armadillo for breakfast -- Puzzle pieces -- Jesus versus the warrior spirits -- Four weddings and a funeral -- Trouble in mind -- Hard lessons -- Civilization's twisting road -- Boundary condition -- Looking back
Summary [Description]In this story of one man's encounter with an indigenous people of Peru, Michael Brown guides his readers upriver into a contested zone of the Amazonian frontier, where more than 50,000 Awajun--renowned for pugnacity and fierce independence--use hard-won political savvy, literacy, and digital skills to live life on their own terms, against long odds
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes In English
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Subject Indians of South America -- Peru -- Amazonas -- Social conditions
Indians of South America -- Peru -- Amazonas -- Social life and customs
Indians of South America -- Peru -- Amazonas -- Folklore
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
Indians of South America
Indians of South America -- Social conditions
Indians of South America -- Social life and customs
Manners and customs
Social conditions
Indigenes Volk
Aguaruna-Sprache
Alltag
Ritual
Soziokultureller Wandel
SUBJECT Amazonas (Peru) -- Social conditions
Amazonas (Peru) -- Social life and customs
Subject Peru -- Amazonas
Amazonas
Peru
Genre/Form Electronic books
Folklore
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780674735583
0674735587
067436807X
9780674368071