Fish People - Linguistic Exogamy and Tukanoan Identity in Northwest Amazonia

Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of figures, maps and tables; Preface; Acknowledgments; Note on orthography; 1. Purpose and organization of the book; 2. Introduction to the central Northwest Amazon; 3. Longhouse; 4. Economic and political life; 5. Vaupés social structure; 6. Kinship; 7. Marriage; 8. Tukanoans and Makú; 9. The role of language and speech in Tukanoan identity; 10. Male and female identity; 11. Tukanoans' place in the cosmos; 12. Tukanoans and the outside world; 13. Conclusions: themes in Tukanoan social identity; Notes; Glossary; References; Index.

Product details

• Authors: Jean E. Jackson, Jean E. (Massachusetts Institute of Techn Jackson
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.09.1983
• EAN: 9780521278225
• ISBN: 978-0-521-27822-5
• No. of pages: 308
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Social an
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Ethnology