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Title

Mindful of famine : religious climatology of the Warao Indians / Johannes Wilbert.

Author

Wilbert, Johannes.

Publication

Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Center for the Study of World Religions : Distributed by Harvard University Press, [1996], ©1996.

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Description

xxvi, 363 pages : illustrations, maps; 24 cm.

Summary

• Comprising nearly 30,000 individuals, the Warao of the Orinoco Delta in northeastern Venezuela are one of the largest contemporary Indian societies of Amazonia. Survival under the extreme ecological conditions of the deltaic marshland, however, demands of its occupants exceptional adaptive agility and an affirmative disposition toward acculturative change.
• In Mindful of Famine, Johannes Wilbert presents the Warao's response to the climatological challenge of their homeland, deftly weaving the strands of geographic, atmospheric, biological, and cultural lore and learning into a rich tapestry of environmental wisdom.

Series Statement

Religions of the world

Uniform Title

Religions of the world (Cambridge, Mass.)

Subject

• Warao Indians > Religion
• Warao Indians > Rites and ceremonies
• Warao Indians > Folklore
• Human beings > Effect of environment on > Orinoco River Delta
• Weather forecasting > Orinoco River Delta > Folklore
• Orinoco River Delta (Venezuela) > Religious life and customs
• Orinoco River Delta (Venezuela) > Climate
• Orinoco River Delta (Venezuela) > Social conditions

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [277]-323) and index.

Contents

Ch. 1. Land and Weather -- Ch. 2. Narrow Passages -- Ch. 3. Warao Weather Lore -- Ch. 4. South American Weather Lore -- Ch. 5. Recasting Weather Religion -- Ch. 6. Mindful of Famine -- Glossary of Warao Words.

ISBN

• 0945454104
• 0945454112 (pbk.)

LCCN

96032031

OCLC

• 35183990
• ocm35183990

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries