The Fruit of Knowledge and the Bodies of the Gods: Religious Meanings of Plants among the Baniwa
This article focuses on the sacrificial acts of divinities and other primal beings whose bodies became cultivated and wild plants; and plants as forms of gifts and other types of exchange from the deities to humanity among the Baniwa peoples of the Northwest Amazon. I seek to extend Viveiros de Cast...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Equinox Publ.
2009
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Journal for the study of religion, nature and culture
Year: 2009, Volume: 3, Issue: 1, Pages: 126-153 |
| Further subjects: | B
Indigenous Religions
B agricultural mythology B Shamanism B Cosmology B ethnobotany |
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