Individual and Society in Guiana - A Comparative Study of Amerindian Social Organisation

Klappentext The Amerindian peoples of Guiana have long been recognized as forming a distinct variety of the tropical forest culture. Zusammenfassung In this book, Peter Rivière 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Peoples and approaches; 2. The settlement pattern: size, duration, and distribution; 3. Village composition; 4. The categories of social classification; 5. Aspects of social relationships; 6. Autonomy and dependency; 7. The individual in society; 8. Guiana society and the wider context

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• Authors: Peter Riviere
• Assisted by: Meyer Fortes (Editor), Edmund Leach (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 28.12.1984
• EAN: 9780521269971
• ISBN: 978-0-521-26997-1
• No. of pages: 136
• Series: London Mathematical Society Le
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general)