This banner text can have markup. Search the history of over billion web pages on the Internet. Books by Language Additional Collections. V have sought a human society retk- ceJ to its most basic expression, His search has taken Claude Levl- Strauss, eminent French anthropologist and one of the founders of structural anthropology, to the far corners of the earth, not as a superficial sightseer, but as a close student of man and the varied cultures he has erected around himself.
Levi-Straoss travelled extensively through the Amazon basin and the dense upland jungles of Brazil to the World on the Wane of his title, it was here, among the most primitive of the Amerindian tribes, that he found the basic human societies he was seeking. A World on the Wane is the story of bis experience among these tribes.
Publishers Ltd. Note the cigarette rolled in a leaf and tucked through the bracelet on the upper arm 25 Sabani the sorcerer 26 Chief Wakletopi 27 Preparing curare 28 The Nambikwara position of the right hand in drawing the bow: the so-called secondary position. C plate 52 29 A Nambikwara woman piercing mother-of-pearl from the river for ear-rings 30 The Nambikwara at work: grading pearls, threading them, and, in the background, weaving 31 A polygamous family 32 A woman suckling her child in the native manner 33 A Nambikwara family 34 Siesta 35 Conjugal felicity 36 Affectionate frolics Vffi, No.
JL Moorehead, the Hopewell mound. I bathe and yet hare I am, ail set to tell the story of my ezpeditkajs. Ania opoiogy is a profession in which adventure flap no part; merely one of its bondages, it represents no more than a dead weight of weeks or months wasted m route; hours spent in idleness when dee s mfomaffit; has given one the dip; hunger, as like as not; and those thousand and one roifflne which eat up most of our days to no purpose and reduce our perilous existence in the virgin forest to a simulacrum of military service.
The truths that we travel so far to seek are of value only when we have sera ped them dean of all this fungus. His critical soue once lulled to sleep, he asks only to be given more of the same and ends by devouring it in unlimited quantity.
