The Fruit of Knowledge and the Bodies of the Gods: Religious Meanings of Plants among the Baniwa

This article focuses on the sacrificial acts of divinities and other primal beings whose bodies became cultivated and wild plants; and plants as forms of gifts and other types of exchange from the deities to humanity among the Baniwa peoples of the Northwest Amazon. I seek to extend Viveiros de Cast...

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Main Author: Wright, Robin Michel 1950- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Equinox Publ. 2009
In: Journal for the study of religion, nature and culture
Year: 2009, Volume: 3, Issue: 1, Pages: 126-153
Further subjects:B Indigenous Religions
B agricultural mythology
B Shamanism
B Cosmology
B ethnobotany
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