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Anthropologist 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 an important food source for the Guaja, some are adopted and nurtured like human children.
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Introduction1. A Brief History of the Guaja2. A Brief History of New World Monkeys3. Monkey Hunting4. Guaja Kinship5. Animism and the Forest Siblings6. Pet Monkeys7. Cosmology and Symbolic CannibalismConclusion. Ethnoprimatology in Amazonia and BeyondAppendix. Monkeys in the Guaja Habitat
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Loretta A. Cormier is an assistant professor of anthropology at the University of Alabama in Birmingham.