Inhuman beings: Morality and perspectivism among Muinane people (Colombian Amazon)

Ethnos

Volumn 70, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 7-30

  Londoño Sulkin, Carlos D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF REGINA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Amazonia; Cosmology; Selfhood; Shamanism; Sociality

Indexed keywords

EID: 15044352362     PISSN: 00141844     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00141840500048474     Document Type: Article

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