Listing 1 - 2 of 2 |
Sort by
|
Choose an application
The Bará, or Fish People, of the Northwest Amazon form part of an unusual network of intermarrying local communities scattered along the rivers of this region. Each community belongs to one of sixteen different groups that speak sixteen different languages, and marriages must take place between people not only from different communities but with different primary languages. In a network of this sort, which defies the usual label of 'tribe', social identity assumes a distinct and unusual configuration. In this book, Jean Jackson's incisive discussions of Bará marriage, kinship, spatial organization, and other features of the social and geographic landscape show how Tukanoans (as participants in the network are collectively known) conceptualize and tie together their universe of widely scattered communities, and how an individual's identity emerges in terms of relations with others. As theoretically challenging as it is unique, the Tukanoan system bears on a wide range of issues of current anthropological concern, such as how to analyze open-ended regional systems in small-scale societies, ideal versus actual patterns of behaviour, identity as both structure and action, and indigenous use of multiple, even conflicting, models of social structure. Professor Jackson's thoughtful discussions also extend to broader social scientific issues concerning the relation of language to culture, the presence or absence of individualism in pre-state societies, the nature of ethnic boundaries, the interplay between observation of behaviour and its interpretation (on the part of both native and anthropologist), and the achievement of flexibility and self-interested goals while applying seemingly rigid social structural principles.
Tucano Indians --- Barasana Indians --- Indians of South America --- American aborigines --- American Indians --- Indigenous peoples --- Barasano Indians --- Waimaja Indians --- Waimaha Indians --- Tukano Indians --- Social life and customs. --- Ethnology --- Social Sciences --- Anthropology
Choose an application
Since its first publication in 1979, this book, together with its companion volume, The Palm and the Pleiades by Stephen Hugh-Jones, has become established as 'the most competent and sophisticated ethnography to date of any South American tropical forest people' (The Times Higher Education Supplement). Both are now available for the first time in paperback. The book is an integrated account of a Northwest Amazonian society, which elucidates the structural models that underlie and unify the domains of kinship, religion, politics and economics. These dynamic models are built from a rich corpus of ethnographic data drawn from extensive field research, and are developed in such a way that, as far as possible, they reproduce an Indian theory of society. Besides enhancing anthropological understanding of a fascinating culture area, the book's highly original approach makes it an important contribution to the general theory of social and cultural structures.
Barasana Indians --- Tucano Indians --- Macú Indians (Papury River watershed) --- Tukano (Indiens) --- #SBIB:39A74 --- #SBIB:39A11 --- Macu Indians (Papury River watershed) --- Tukano Indians --- Indians of South America --- Mahacu Indians (Papury River watershed) --- Makú Indians (Papury River watershed) --- Maucu Indians (Papury River watershed) --- Barasano Indians --- Waimaja Indians --- Waimaha Indians --- Etnografie: Amerika --- Antropologie : socio-politieke structuren en relaties --- Barasana Indians. --- Tucano Indians. --- Macú Indians (Papury River watershed). --- Macú Indians (Papury River watershed) --- Social Sciences --- Anthropology
Listing 1 - 2 of 2 |
Sort by
|