To Weave and Sing: Art, Symbol, and Narrative in the South American Rain Forest

by David M. Guss, David M. Fuss

Book in original condition with very little wear.

Genres: Anthropology

Hardcover

First published December 12, 1989

Reviews

[hh · Rating 4 out of 5]

wonderful, elegant, accessible writing about the culture and lore of the Yekuana people of the northern Amazon. i feel that i truly got to know the society on multiple levels. guss focuses primarily on basket-making, but also includes elements of house- and garden-building as pathways into the organization and storytelling of the Yekuana. if i have any complaint, it's that i had no sense of what it might be like to be an individual within this community, although that might be asking too much of a work such as this.