Life on the Amazon An Anthropology of a Brazilian Peasant Village - British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship Monographs

Mark Harris, British Academy

Hardback (01 Dec 2000)

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Publisher's Synopsis

Innovative contribution to anthropology's interest in how identity is created and defined, using two forms of ethnographic writing to explore the historical and social identity of a village of coboclo fisherpeople who live on the banks of the Amazon.

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ISBN:	9780197262399
Publisher:	Liverpool University Press
Imprint:	The British Academy
Pub date:	01 Dec 2000
DEWEY:	306.08968808113
DEWEY edition:	21
Language:	English
Number of pages:	236
Weight:	824g
Height:	197mm
Width:	257mm
Spine width:	23mm