A brief history of the Guaja -- A brief history of new world monkeys -- Monkey hunting -- Guaja kinship -- Animism and the forest siblings -- Pet monkeys -- Cosmology and symbolic cannibalism
Summary
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 Guajá animistic beliefs, all forms of plant and animal life -- especially monkeys -- have souls and are woven into a comprehensive kinship system
