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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*
Affiliation:
University of Georgia
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Copyright © 1986 by the University of Texas Press

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