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Inhuman beings: morality and perspectivism among Muinane people (Colombian Amazon)

Like many other Amazonians, Muinane people often use perspectival imagery in discussions of relations between human beings and animals. It is a distinct possibility, within their ontology, that beings that humans perceive as animals, perceive themselves as human, and there are numerous complementary...

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Published in:	Ethnos 2005-03, Vol.70 (1), p.7-30
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