The Occult Life Of Things: Native Amazonian Theories Of Materiality And Personhood
| Use attributes for filter ! | |
| Google books | books.google.com |
|---|---|
| Originally published | 2009 |
| Editors | Fernando Santos-Granero |
| Date of Reg. | |
| Date of Upd. | |
| ID | 2124973 |
About The Occult Life Of Things: Native Amazonian Theories Of Materiality And Personhood
Native peoples of the Amazon view objects, especially human artifacts, as the first cosmic creations and the building blocks from which the natural world has been shaped. In these constructional cosmologies, spears became the stings of wasps, hammocks became spiderwebs, stools became the buttocks of human beings. . . .