The Tamed Jaguar: Essays in Amazonian Ethnology.
University Press of the Midi| N° d'inventaire | 31126 |
| Format | 13.5 x 22 |
| Détails | 309 p., paperback. |
| Publication | Toulouse, 2024 |
| Etat | Nine |
| ISBN | 9782810712793 |
"The Anthropological" Collection.
This book brings together texts, previously unpublished in French, by a world-renowned anthropologist, Carlos Fausto, who has undertaken to revisit the Amazonian world in order to offer an original reading of it, marked by a lively spirit of experimentation. People who eat people, dreamers who become jaguars, white bosses who are adopted as masters, government agents who are asked to resurrect the dead, and a messiah who claims to know how to put an end to disease and death: these are, among others, aspects of the Amazonian world, well known to anthropologists and yet still as puzzling as ever, that Carlos Fausto undertakes to revisit in this book in order to offer an original reading of it, marked by a lively spirit of experimentation and by a rare combination of detailed ethnography, comparative effort, and theoretical elaboration.
The Tamed Jaguar brings together texts spanning the author's intellectual journey over two decades, unfolding a long-term reflection on movement and transformation, renewing the questioning of the relationship between structure and history. It allows us to follow step by step the trajectory of a researcher who has made a decisive contribution to contemporary anthropology.
"The Anthropological" Collection.
This book brings together texts, previously unpublished in French, by a world-renowned anthropologist, Carlos Fausto, who has undertaken to revisit the Amazonian world in order to offer an original reading of it, marked by a lively spirit of experimentation. People who eat people, dreamers who become jaguars, white bosses who are adopted as masters, government agents who are asked to resurrect the dead, and a messiah who claims to know how to put an end to disease and death: these are, among others, aspects of the Amazonian world, well known to anthropologists and yet still as puzzling as ever, that Carlos Fausto undertakes to revisit in this book in order to offer an original reading of it, marked by a lively spirit of experimentation and by a rare combination of detailed ethnography, comparative effort, and theoretical elaboration.
The Tamed Jaguar brings together texts spanning the author's intellectual journey over two decades, unfolding a long-term reflection on movement and transformation, renewing the questioning of the relationship between structure and history. It allows us to follow step by step the trajectory of a researcher who has made a decisive contribution to contemporary anthropology.