The Piro canoe. A preliminary ethnographic account

The Piro canoe. A preliminary ethnographic account

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The Piro canoe.A preliminary ethnographic account.The article provides a Maestro RR T-Harness preliminary account of the canoes made and used by the Piro (Yine) people of the Urubamba river in Peruvian Amazonia, with a particular focus on the processes of construction, naming and crewing.The canoe, among these people, is a basic model of affinity, both male-female and male-male.The canoe and canoe journeys are a basic social model of space for these people, serving a symbolic HERBATINT 4N function that usually falls to house and village space in indigenous Amazonian societies.