"Ethnography fills a significant gap in the literature on the Ashaninca by presenting a coherent picture of ecology, technology, political and religious organization, and history as a dynamic system both in its internal reproduction and in its transformations. Focus is primarily on demonstrating importance of symmetric exchange in social life, and on the role of myth in the organization of productive activities. Important discussion of recent political changes in Ashaninca territory"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 57.