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Chronicle of the Guayaki Indians
Pierre Clastres
Chronicle of the Guayaki Indians
Pierre Clastres
In the 1960s the anthropologist Pierre Clastres spent a year with a so-called "savage" tribe of Indians in Paraguay. This is his account of that experience, describing the tribe's daily life and habits, ritual and cosmology - and the anger which caused them to start murdering their own children.
256 pages, illustrations
Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
Released | June 22, 1998 |
ISBN13 | 9780571193981 |
Publishers | Faber & Faber |
Pages | 256 |
Dimensions | 137 × 218 × 20 mm · 270 g |
Translator | Auster, Paul |
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