Matsigenka myth and morality: Notions of the social and the asocial

Ethnos

Volumn 63, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 248-272

  Rosengren, Dan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Amazonas; Conviviality; Cosmology; Matsigenka; Morality; Myth

Indexed keywords

EID: 84933475768     PISSN: 00141844     EISSN: 1469588X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00141844.1998.9981574     Document Type: Article

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