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By Christine Hugh-Jones

ISBN-10: 0511558031

ISBN-13: 9780511558030

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ISBN-13: 9780521225441

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Due to the fact that its first ebook in 1979, this ebook, including its spouse quantity, The Palm and the Pleiades by way of Stephen Hugh-Jones, has turn into proven as 'the so much efficient and complicated ethnography so far of any South American tropical woodland humans' (The instances larger schooling Supplement). either at the moment are on hand for the 1st time in paperback. The publication is an built-in account of a Northwest Amazonian society, which elucidates the structural types that underlie and unify the domain names of kinship, faith, politics and economics. those dynamic types are outfitted from a wealthy corpus of ethnographic facts drawn from huge box study, and are built in this type of means that, so far as attainable, they reproduce an Indian idea of society. along with improving anthropological figuring out of a desirable tradition quarter, the book's hugely unique method makes it a huge contribution to the final idea of social and cultural buildings.

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The rather confusing use of terms requires some explanation. The river Pira-parana and its affluents are inhabited by a number of separate peoples, including the Barasana. The area covered by the Pira-parana river system forms the southwestern part of the Vaupes region, which overlaps from Colombia into Brazil. The other rivers of the Vaupes region are part of the Vaupes river system, whereas the Pira-parana flows into the Apaporis to the south (see map 1). The Tukanoan groups of the Vaupes region are related by common cultural patterns, by their use of Eastern Tukanoan languages and by their participation in an open-ended social system based on the exchange of women between exogamous patrilineal descent groups.

While the ties between some major Exogamous Groups, such as the Tukano and the Bara, are universally known and rigorously respected in the observance of exogamy, it is fruitless to look for an overall organisation of Vaupes Exogamous Groups into discrete phratries. The brothers or mother's children of a given Exogamous Group may intermarry with separate groups which are also classified as brothers or mother's children. Besides, the very existence of three types of link between 21 Social structure Exogamous Groups - agnatic sibling, original uterine sibling and de facto uterine sibling - suggests that this is a weak and variable form of organisation.

The other rivers of the Vaupes region are part of the Vaupes river system, whereas the Pira-parana flows into the Apaporis to the south (see map 1). The Tukanoan groups of the Vaupes region are related by common cultural patterns, by their use of Eastern Tukanoan languages and by their participation in an open-ended social system based on the exchange of women between exogamous patrilineal descent groups. These exogamous groups are the peoples such as the Barasana, Tatuyo, Desana etc. Generally speaking, each of these exogamous units has its own language, but, in the exceptional cases where language and descent boundaries do not coincide, there is enormous confusion in the use of these two criteria for distinguishing groups.

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