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Anthropology of Marriage in Lowland South America
Bending and Breaking the Rules
Av Catherine Ales, Stephen Beckerman m. fl.
E-bok, 2017
1553 kr
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"Foremost scholars of indigenous Amazonia explore the vast and interesting gap between rules and practice, demonstrating how sociocultural systems endure and even prosper due to the flexibility, creativity, and resilience of the people within them."--Jeremy M. Campbell, author of Conjuring …
Anthropology of Marriage in Lowland South America
Bending and Breaking the Rules
Av Paul Valentine, Stephen Beckerman m. fl.
Inbunden, 2017
1052 kr
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This volume reveals that individuals in Amazonian cultures often disregard or reinterpret the marriage rules of their societies—rules that anthropologists previously thought reflected practice. It is the first book to consider not just what the rules are but how people in these societies negotiate, …
Cultures of Multiple Fathers
The Theory and Practice of Partible Paternity in South America
Av University Press of Florida, Stephen Beckerman m. fl.
Inbunden, 2002
677 kr
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This book is the first to explore the concept of partible paternity, the aboriginal South American belief that a child can have more than one biological father - in other words, that all men who have sex with a woman during her pregnancy contribute to the formation of her baby and may assume social …
Revenge in the Cultures of Lowland South America
Av Stephen Beckerman, Paul Valentine
Inbunden, 2008
677 kr
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This extraordinary ethnography is the first devoted to the study of revenge. The contributors describe this social phenomenon in fourteen tribal societies, comparing its violent manifestations as well as its more idiosyncratic forms. Blood revenge at spear point is common in certain regions of …
