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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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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Gainesville :
University Press of Florida,
[2017]
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.