Chevalier, Jacques M. 1949-

Civilization and the stolen gift : capital, kin, and cult in Eastern Peru / Jacques M. Chevalier ; foreword by Ernesto Laclau. - Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, 1982. - xvii, 467 p. : il. ; 24 cm.

Bibliografía: p. [431]-446.

Practice and semiosis -- Profile of a rain-forest economy -- Swidden cultivation and the natural mimesis thesis -- Extraverted relations of class exploitation -- Authority, charity, and slavery -- The partitioning of wealth and space -- Nuclear households and village kindreds -- Kinship alliances and class structure -- The godparental complex -- Herbal healing -- Sorcery -- Conclusion: a vision of silent despair.

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Economía antropológica--Perú--Pachitea (Provincia)
Indígenas asháninka--Mitología


Puerto Inca (Huánuco, Peru)--Economic conditions.
Pachitea (Peru : Province)--Social conditions.
Puerto Inca (Huánuco, Peru)--Social conditions.

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