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Les apports du Nouveau Monde à l'Ancien : actes du colloque du FESTAG (Festival des arts de Guadeloupe) des 23-25 juillet 1991
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ISBN: 2865375412 Year: 1995 Publisher: [Antilles-Guyane] : Paris : Les Abymes : CERC/Université des Antilles et de la Guyane ; Karthala ; FESTAG,

Wild majesty : encounters with Caribs from Columbus to the present day : an anthology
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ISBN: 0198122748 0198112262 Year: 1992 Publisher: Oxford [etc.] : Oxford University Press,


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Un flibustier français dans la mer des Antilles 1618-1620 : relation d'un voyage infortuné fait aux Indes occidentales par le capitaine Fleury avec la description de quelques îles qu'on y rencontre
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ISBN: 2232103250 9782232103254 Year: 1990 Publisher: Paris : Seghers,

Individual and society in Guiana
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ISBN: 0521264537 0521269970 0511558112 9780521264532 9780521269971 9780511558115 Year: 1984 Volume: 51 Publisher: Cambridge Cambridge University Press

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Abstract

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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