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7 produkter
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, …
Ecology of the Barí
Rainforest Horticulturalists of South America
Av Stephen Beckerman, Roberto Lizarralde
Häftad, 2013
317 kr
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Inhabiting the rainforest of the southwest Maracaibo Basin, split by the border between Colombia and Venezuela, the BarÍ have survived centuries of incursions. Anthropologist Roberto Lizarralde began studying the BarÍ in 1960, when he made the first modern peaceful contact with this previously …
Versatility of Kinship
Essays Presented to Harry W. Basehart
Av Stephen Beckerman, Linda S Cordell
E-bok, 2014
807 kr
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Studies in Anthropology: The Versatility of Kinship focuses on the dynamics involved in the special class of interpersonal ties that bind individuals to others. The selection first offers information on the variant usage in American kinship, uses of kinship in Kwaio, Solomon Islands, and incest and …
Universos chibchas
Nuevas aproximaciones a la unidad y la diversidad humana del área istmocolombiana
Av Stephen Beckerman, Juan Camilo Nino Vargas
E-bok, 2024
115 kr
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UNIVERSOS CHIBCHAS marca un hito en la antropología y la etnografía indígena al problematizar la unidad y diversidad de los pueblos de lengua chibcha, los más importantes de la región istmocolombiana, la cual se extiende desde el litoral de Honduras hasta los Andes de Colombia y Venezuela. La obra …
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 …
