Individual and Society in Guiana: A Comparative Study of Amerindian Social Organisation (Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology) Book + PRICE WATCH * Amazon pricing is not included in price watch

Individual and Society in Guiana: A Comparative Study of Amerindian Social Organisation (Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology) Book

In this book, Peter Rivière employs a comparative perspective to reveal that Guianan societies, generally characterized as socially fluid and amorphous, are in fact much more highly structured than they first appear, and he identifies certain common patterns of social organization that result from sets of individual choices and relationships.Read More

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    Demonstrating the insights that can be gained by employing a comparative perspective, Peter Rivière uses such an approach to show that Guianan societies, generally characterized as socially fluid, are in fact highly structured. He identifies certain Guianan patterns of social organization that result from individual choices and relationships and, by contrasting these with the characteristics of other Lowland South American societies, constructs a spectrum of complexity of Amerindian social structure that shows the Guianan variant to be the logically simplest form.

  • 0521269970
  • 9780521269971
  • Peter Riviere
  • 28 December 1984
  • Cambridge University Press
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 136
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