Mindful of Famine: Religious Climatology of the Warao Indians

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For the Warao of the Venezuelan Orinoco Delta, survival$ under the extreme ecological conditions of the deltaic marshland requ$ exceptional adaptive agility. Johannes Wilbert presents the Warao's response to the climatological challenge of their homeland, deftly weaving the strands of geographic, atmospheric, biological, and cultu$ lore and learning into a rich tapestry of environmental wisdom. This volume, in the Religions of the World series, is distributed by Harvard University Press for the Harvard Center for the Study of Worl$ Religions.