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The book is an extended study in English of Amazonian ritual. Through an analysis of a secret men's cult widespread throughout Northwest Amazonia, Hugh-Jones builds up a general picture of a South American Indian society, and of a religious and cosmological system that is common to a large area of Northwest Amazonia.Hugh-Jones, Stephen is the author of 'Palm and the Pleiades', published 1988 under ISBN 9780521358903 and ISBN 0521358906.
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