Description: The Anthropology of Form and Meaning Series: Vital Souls - Bororo Cosmology, Natural Symbolism and Shamanism by Jon Christopher Crocker. The University of Arizona Press, Tucson, 1985. Illustrated 380 page first edition hardcover with mylar-protected jacket in excellent condition. Vital Souls relates in an ethnographic fashion how the Bororo Indians of central Brazil understand their lives in terms of the bope, describing how they employ shamanism and symbolic thought to deal with illness and accident, sex and marriage, birth and death, and how they relate the human life cycle to natural processes. More central to the investigation, the author reveals how shamans of the aroe have disappeared from Bororo life. This is the first volume of the series The Anthropology of Form and Meaning. $4.25 domestic U.S. shipping. Payment must be received within 24 hours of sale.
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Book Title: Vital Souls
Custom Bundle: No
Book Series: The Anthropology of Form and Meaning Series
Original Language: English
Vintage: No
Personalize: No
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Personalized: No
Features: Dust Jacket, Illustrated
Topic: Anthropology, Shamanism
Signed: No
Ex Libris: No
Narrative Type: Nonfiction
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Inscribed: No
Intended Audience: Adults
Edition: First Edition
Publication Year: 1985
Type: Book
Era: 1980s
Author: Jon Christopher Crocker
Genre: Anthropology
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
Number of Pages: 380 Pages
