Kinship with Monkeys
The Guaja Foragers of Eastern Amazonia
by Loretta A. Cormier

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• Author: Loretta A. Cormier
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Language: english
• ISBN: 9780231125246 (0231125240)
• Release date: September 24, 2003
• Format: hardcover, 234 pages
• Genres: anthropology

About The Book

Intrigued by a slide showing a woman breast-feeding a monkey, anthropologist Loretta A. Cormier spent 15 months living among the Guaja, a foraging people in a remote area of Brazil. The result is this ethnographic study of the extraordinary relationship between the Guaja Indians and monkeys. While monkeys are a key food source for the Guaja, certain pet monkeys have a quasi-human status. Some infant monkeys are adopted and nurtured as human children, while others are consumed in ritual practices of symbolic cannibalism. central theme of Cormier’s research: how can monkeys be both eaten as food and nurtured as children? Her research reveals that monkeys play a vital role in Guaja society, ecology, economy and religion. In Guaja animistic beliefs all forms of plant and animal life — especially monkeys — have souls and are woven into a comprehensive kinship system. Therefore, all consumption can be considered a form of cannibalism. beyond Amazonia, including a discussion of Western perceptions of primates.

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