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The Anthropology of Marriage in Lowland South America : Bending and Breaking the Rules.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Gainesville : University Press of Florida, 2017Copyright date: ©2017Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (317 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780813052892
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: The Anthropology of Marriage in Lowland South AmericaDDC classification:
  • 980.01
LOC classification:
  • F2230.1.M28.A67 2017eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- The Anthropology of Marriage in Lowland South America -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Introduction -- PART I -- 1. Marriage Matsigenka Style: Some Critical Reflections on Theories of Marriage Practices -- 2. Marriages, Norms and Structures: The Dilemma of Finding a Wife among the Piaroa of the Sipapo -- 3. To Be Seen or Not to Be Seen! Marriage Choices among Ese Eja of the Bolivian and Peruvian Amazon -- PART II -- 4. Why Did They Marry? A Very Short Tale of a Lasting Wayù (Guajiro) Marriage -- 5. Beyond the Norms: Marriage and Incest among the Ye'kwana -- 6. Why Do the Ye'kwana Commit Incest So Frequently? A Discussion of Silva's "Beyond the Norms" -- 7. Why Do Women Run Away? Matrimonial Strategies among the Yanomami -- PART III -- 8. "Poor Me, I Have No Cousin": The Pragmatics of Marital Choice in the Northwest Amazon -- 9. Why Was There a Transition from an Elementary Kinship Structure to a Complex One? A Short Ethnography of an Amazonian Village -- 10. Changes in Canela Marriage over 70 Years: From Authorizing to Stealing -- 11. Waorani Marriage -- Bibliography -- List of Contributors -- Index.
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Cover -- The Anthropology of Marriage in Lowland South America -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Introduction -- PART I -- 1. Marriage Matsigenka Style: Some Critical Reflections on Theories of Marriage Practices -- 2. Marriages, Norms and Structures: The Dilemma of Finding a Wife among the Piaroa of the Sipapo -- 3. To Be Seen or Not to Be Seen! Marriage Choices among Ese Eja of the Bolivian and Peruvian Amazon -- PART II -- 4. Why Did They Marry? A Very Short Tale of a Lasting Wayù (Guajiro) Marriage -- 5. Beyond the Norms: Marriage and Incest among the Ye'kwana -- 6. Why Do the Ye'kwana Commit Incest So Frequently? A Discussion of Silva's "Beyond the Norms" -- 7. Why Do Women Run Away? Matrimonial Strategies among the Yanomami -- PART III -- 8. "Poor Me, I Have No Cousin": The Pragmatics of Marital Choice in the Northwest Amazon -- 9. Why Was There a Transition from an Elementary Kinship Structure to a Complex One? A Short Ethnography of an Amazonian Village -- 10. Changes in Canela Marriage over 70 Years: From Authorizing to Stealing -- 11. Waorani Marriage -- Bibliography -- List of Contributors -- Index.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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