Hierarchical society: The Yukuna storyFootnote¹

This article is a reworked and extended version of a paper presented at a workshop on new theory in social anthropology at the University of Oslo, June 1989. My fieldwork among the Yukuna Indians of Colombia was financed by a research fellowship from NAVF (Norwegian Research Council for Science and the Humanities), and was carried out in cooperation with Carla Matallana Laverde.

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