Dialectical Societies The Gê and Bororo of Central Brazil
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| Format: | Elektronisch E-Book |
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| Sprache: | English |
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Cambridge, Mass.
Harvard University Press
[1979]
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| Schriftenreihe: | Harvard Studies in Cultural Anthropology
1 |
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| Beschreibung: | Num. figs The Gê-speaking tribes of Central Brazil have always been an anomaly in the annals of anthropology; their exceedingly simple technology contrasts sharply with their highly complex sociological and ideological traditions. This book, the outgrowth of extended anthropological research organized by Maybury-Lewis, at long last demystifies Gê social structure while modifying and reinterpreting some of the traditional ideas held about kinship, affiliation, and descent The Gê-speaking tribes of Central Brazil have always been an anomaly in the annals of anthropology; their exceedingly simple technology contrasts sharply with their highly complex sociological and ideological traditions. Dialectical Societies, the outgrowth of extended anthropological research organized by David Maybury-Lewis, at long last demystifies Gê social structure while modifying and reinterpreting some of the traditional ideas held about kinship, affiliation, and descent. Each of the seven contributors deals with a different lowland tribe, but all of them address an ideological focus on the dualistic tribal organization that is here defined as fundamental to the Gê As a collection, their work comprises a substantial revision of the hitherto undeveloped and largely ignored ethnography of Central Brazil |
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| Beschreibung: | 1 Online-Ressource (xiv,340p.) |
| ISBN: | 9780674180727 |
| DOI: | 10.4159/harvard.9780674180727 |