Individual and Society in Guiana: A Comparative Study of Amerindian Social Organisation
Peter Rivière
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 Rivi?re 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.
年:
1984
版本:
Re-issued in this digitally printed version 2007
出版商:
Cambridge University Press
語言:
english
頁數:
137
ISBN 10:
0521269970
ISBN 13:
9780521269971
系列:
Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology 51
文件:
PDF, 1.47 MB
IPFS:
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english, 1984