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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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| Dokumenttyp: | Online-Ressource Buch |
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| Sprache: | English |
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Gainesville
: University Press of Florida
, 2018-2017
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| Online Zugang: | http://proxy.fid-lizenzen.de/han/upso-ebooks-altertum/dx.doi.org/10.5744/florida/9780813054315.001.0001 |
| Verantwortlich: | Paul Valentine, Stephen Beckerman, and Catherine Alès |
| E-Book-Pakete: | Oxford University Press : Florida Scholarship Online / Archaeology Collection |
| Zusammenfassung: | 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/Amazonia actually choose whom they marry. |
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| Beschreibung: | Editors Stephen Beckerman and Paul Valentine argue that while Amazonian societies certainly have variations on marriage practices, in reality the rules surrounding them are inconsistently followed. Utilizing methods of cultural and social anthropology and pulling together data from several cultures, contributors demonstrate how individual motives and opportunities--including desire, economics, or residence--result in marriage choices that may negotiate, manipulate, or ignore societal rules Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Beschreibung: | Online-Ressource (1 online resource) |
| ISBN: | 9780813053066 |
