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Community, Region, and Cosmos: Levels of Analysis in Amazonian Anthropology

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THE COSMIC ZYGOTE: COSMOLOGY IN THE AMAZON BASIN. By ROEPETER G. (New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1982. Pp. 384. $40.00.)
THE FISH PEOPLE: LINGUISTIC EXOGAMY AND TUKANOAN IDENTITY IN NORTHWEST AMAZONIA. By JACKSONJEAN E. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1983. Pp. 283. $49.50 cloth, $17.95 paper.)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 October 2022

Jonathan D. Hill
Jonathan D. Hill*
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University of Georgia
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Latin American Research Review , Volume 21 , Issue 2 , 1986 , pp. 246 - 255
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Copyright © 1986 by the University of Texas Press

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