The Fish People: Linguistic Exogamy and Tukanoan Identity in Northwest Amazonia
by Jackson, Jean Elizabeth
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Minor rubbing. Spine bumped. VG. Textual map,tables,illus. New World Ethnography Cambridge University Press Cambridge (1983) orig.wrappers 23x15cm, xix,287 pp., PAPERBACK. Series: Cambridge Studies in Social & Cultural Anthropology, 39. ["The Bara, 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 Bara 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..,." - Publisher's description].
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- Title
- The Fish People: Linguistic Exogamy and Tukanoan Identity in Northwest Amazonia
- Author
- Jackson, Jean Elizabeth
- Book Condition
- Used - Minor rubbing. Spine bumped. VG.
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- Paperback
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Date Published
- (1983)
- Keywords
- Northwest Amazonia Colombia Ethnology South America Bara Anthropology Social Sociology Barasana Indian Linguistic Exogamy Tukanoan Identity
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