Enchanted forests, entangled lives. Spirits, peasant economies, and violence in Northwest Amazonia

This thesis describes the enchanted, sylvan world of a peasant community from La Macarena, a municipality located in the Colombian Northwest Amazonia. These peasants experience the forest as an animated place, inhabited by different spiritual, animal, and non-human beings with whom they have to deal...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ruiz, Daniel
Other Authors: Edward Kohn (Internal/Supervisor)
Format: Others
Language:en
Published: McGill University 2013
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Online Access:http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=119722