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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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Otros Autores: Ales, C. (Catherine) (Editor ), Beckerman, Stephen (Editor ), Valentine, Paul, 1942- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2017]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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500 |a Editors Stephen Beckerman and Paul Valentine argue that while Amazonian societies certainly have variations on marriage practices, in reality the rules surrounding them are inconsistently followed. Utilizing methods of cultural and social anthropology and pulling together data from several cultures, contributors demonstrate how individual motives and opportunities--including desire, economics, or residence--result in marriage choices that may negotiate, manipulate, or ignore societal rules. 
505 0 0 |g Machine generated contents note:  |t PART I --  |g 1.  |t Marriage Matsigenka Style: Some Critical Reflections on Theories of Marriage Practices /  |r Dan Rosengren --  |g 2.  |t Marriages, Norms and Structures: The Dilemma of Finding a Wife among the Piaroa of the Sipapo /  |r Alexander Mansutti Rodriguez --  |g 3.  |t To Be Seen or Not to Be Seen! Marriage Choices among Ese Eja of the Bolivian and Peruvian Amazon /  |r Daniela Peluso --  |t PART II --  |g 4.  |t Why Did They Marry? A Very Short Tale of a Lasting Wayu (Guajiro) Marriage /  |r Francois-Rene Picon --  |g 5.  |t Beyond the Norms: Marriage and Incest among the Ye'kwana /  |r Nalua Rosa Silva Monterrey --  |g 6.  |t Why Do the Ye'kwana Commit Incest So Frequently? A Discussion of Silva's "Beyond the Norms" /  |r Paul Valentine --  |g 7.  |t Why Do Women Run Away? Matrimonial Strategies among the Yanomami /  |r Catherine Ales --  |t PART III --  |g 8.  |t "Poor Me, I Have No Cousin": The Pragmatics of Marital Choice in the Northwest Amazon /  |r Janet Chernela --  |g 9.  |t Why Was There a Transition from an Elementary Kinship Structure to a Complex One? A Short Ethnography of an Amazonian Village /  |r Lionel D. Sims --  |g 10.  |t Changes in Canela Marriage over 70 Years: From Authorizing to Stealing /  |r William H. Crocker --  |g 11.  |t Waorani Marriage /  |r Rosemary Diaz. 
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