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  • Mehinaku

    The Drama of Daily Life in a Brazilian Indian Village

    by Thomas Gregor ...
    Thomas Gregor sees the Mehinaku Indians of central Brazil as performers of roles, engaged in an ongoing improvisational drama of community life. The layout of the village and the architecture of the houses make the community a natural theater in the round, rendering the villagers' actions highly visible and audible. Lacking privacy, the Mehinaku have become masters of stagecraft and impression ... Read more

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  • Charophytes of Europe

    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    This book covers whole Europe within its geographical limits, providing not only an overview about biogeography and recent taxonomic status of Charophyte species but also in-depth information about recent knowledge about ecology, ontogenesis, morphology, palaeontology and systematics of this group of algae. This is the first comprehensive treatment of European Charophytes. In addition, the reader ... Read more

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  • Anxious Pleasures

    The Sexual Lives of an Amazonian People

    by Thomas Gregor ...
    "Good fish get dull but sex is always fun." So say the Mehinaku people of Brazil. But Thomas Gregor shows that sex brings a supreme ambiguity to the villagers' lives. In their elaborate rituals—especially those practiced by the men in their secret societies—the Mehinaku give expression to a system of symbols reminiscent of psychosexual neuroses identified by Freud: castration anxiety, Oedipal ... Read more

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    The Paleontology and Paleoecology of Mid-Cretaceous North Africa

    Series series Life of the Past
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    How Darwin's Forgotten Theory of Mate Choice Shapes the Animal World - and Us

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    Human Biological and Cultural Origins

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