The Amerindian peoples of Guiana, the geographical region of north-east South America, have long been recognized as forming a distinct variety of the tropical forest culture. In this book, Peter Rivière employs a comparative perspective to reveal that Guianan societies, generally characterized as so...

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1. Verfasser:	Rivière, Peter (VerfasserIn)
Format:	Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	Cambridge Cambridge University Press 1984
Schriftenreihe:	Cambridge studies in social and cultural anthropology 51
Schlagworte:	Indianer Indians of South America / Guiana / Social conditions Carib Indians / Social conditions Social structure / Guiana Sozialstruktur Guayana
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Zusammenfassung:	The Amerindian peoples of Guiana, the geographical region of north-east South America, have long been recognized as forming a distinct variety of the tropical forest culture. In this book, Peter Rivière employs a comparative perspective to reveal that Guianan societies, generally characterized as socially fluid and amorphous, are in fact much more highly structured than they first appear, and he identifies certain common patterns of social organization that result from sets of individual choices and relationships. By contrasting the characteristics of Guianan society with those from elsewhere in Lowland South America, he constructs a spectrum of complexity of Amerindian social structure, and argues that the Guianan variant represents the logically simplest form of organization in the area
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Beschreibung:	1 online resource (vii, 127 pages)
ISBN:	9780511558115
DOI:	10.1017/CBO9780511558115