ABSTRACT
This book is an amended version of my doctoral thesis entitled ‘Male Initiation and Cosmology among the Barasana Indians of the Vaupés Area of Colombia’. The thesis submitted in 1974, was based on fieldwork carried out between September 1968 and December 1970 under the auspices of Cambridge University. . . . The fieldwork . . . involved myself, my wife Christine and Peter Silverwood-Cope. The project was directed by Professor Sir Edmund Leach and financed from the Social Science Research Council . . .
