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The anthropology of marriage in lowland South America : bending and breaking the rules /

Traditional treatments of marriage among Indigenous people focus on what people say about whom one should marry and on rules that anthropologists induce from those statements. This volume is a cultural and social anthropological examination of the ways the Indigenous peoples of lowland South America...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Valentine, Paul, 1942- (Editor ), Beckerman, Stephen (Editor ), Alès, C. (Catherine) (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2017]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Machine generated contents note: PART I
  • 1. Marriage Matsigenka Style: Some Critical Reflections on Theories of Marriage Practices / Dan Rosengren
  • 2. Marriages, Norms and Structures: The Dilemma of Finding a Wife among the Piaroa of the Sipapo / Alexander Mansutti Rodriguez
  • 3. To Be Seen or Not to Be Seen! Marriage Choices among Ese Eja of the Bolivian and Peruvian Amazon / Daniela Peluso
  • PART II
  • 4. Why Did They Marry? A Very Short Tale of a Lasting Wayu (Guajiro) Marriage / Francois-Rene Picon
  • 5. Beyond the Norms: Marriage and Incest among the Ye'kwana / Nalua Rosa Silva Monterrey
  • 6. Why Do the Ye'kwana Commit Incest So Frequently? A Discussion of Silva's "Beyond the Norms" / Paul Valentine
  • 7. Why Do Women Run Away? Matrimonial Strategies among the Yanomami / Catherine Ales
  • PART III
  • 8. "Poor Me, I Have No Cousin": The Pragmatics of Marital Choice in the Northwest Amazon / Janet Chernela
  • 9. Why Was There a Transition from an Elementary Kinship Structure to a Complex One? A Short Ethnography of an Amazonian Village / Lionel D. Sims
  • 10. Changes in Canela Marriage over 70 Years: From Authorizing to Stealing / William H. Crocker
  • 11. Waorani Marriage / Rosemary Diaz.