In the land of the Cinta Larga: the ethnography of a ritual / No país dos Cinta Larga: uma etnografia do ritual

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

1991

RESUMO

This dissertation focuses a great feast celebrated by the Cinta Larga, a Tupi-Mondé people that inhabits the northwestern Mato Grosso and southeastern Rondônia, Brazil. By an extensive description of the ritual steps, whose climax is the sacrifice of an animal victim, the study elucidates the ethnographic context and the symbolic codes to provide a privileged insight of Cinta Larga society.

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cinta-larga social organization and kinship etnologia indígena south america amazonia cannibalism américa do sul ritual amazônia cinta-larga cosmology tupi-mondé canibalismo organização social e parentesco ritual cosmologia tupi-mondé

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