The Fish People Linguistic Exogamy and Tukanoan Identity in Northwest Amazonia |
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| Author:
| Jackson, Jean E. |
| Contribution by:
| Fortes, Meyer
Goody, Jack
Leach, Edmund
Tambiah, Stanley J. |
| Series title: | Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-521-27822-5 |
| Publication Date: | Sep 1983 |
| Publisher: | Cambridge University Press
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $54.99 |
Book Description:
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The Bará, or Fish people of the Northwest Amazon form part of a network of intermarrying local communities - each community speaks a different language and marriages must take place between people from different communities with different languages. Here, Jean Jackson discusses Bar· marriage, kinship, spatial organization and other features of their social landscape.
The Bará, or Fish people of the Northwest Amazon form part of a network of intermarrying local communities - each community speaks a different language and marriages must take place between people from different communities with different languages. Here, Jean Jackson discusses Bar· marriage, kinship, spatial organization and other features of their social landscape.