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Dialectical Societies : The Ge and Bororo of Central Brazil / ed. by David Maybury-Lewis.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Harvard Studies in Cultural Anthropology ; 1Publisher: Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2013]Copyright date: ©1979Edition: Reprint 2014Description: 1 online resource (340 p.) : 14 tables, 12 figures, 1 mapContent type:
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  • 9780674180710
  • 9780674180727
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 305.8/98/081
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- CONTENTS -- FOREWORD -- INTRODUCTION -- 1. CYCLES AND TRENDS IN KRIKATI NAMING PRACTICES -- 2. THE RELATIONSHIP SYSTEM OF THE KRAHÓ -- 3. THE APINAYÉ RELATIONSHIP SYSTEM: TERMINOLOGY AND IDEOLOGY -- 4. EXIT AND VOICE IN CENTRAL BRAZIL: THE POLITICS OF FLIGHT IN KAYAPÓ SOCIETY -- 5. THE GÊ AND BORORO SOCIETIES AS DIALECTICAL SYSTEMS: A GENERAL MODEL -- 6. KINSHIP, HOUSEHOLD, AND COMMUNITY STRUCTURE AMONG THE KAYAPÓ -- 7. CULTURAL CATEGORIES OF THE CENTRAL GÊ -- 8. SELVES AND ALTERS AMONG THE EASTERN BORORO -- CONCLUSION: KINSHIP, IDEOLOGY, AND CULTURE -- REFERENCES. NOTES. INDEX -- REFERENCES -- NOTES -- INDEX
Summary: 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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Frontmatter -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- CONTENTS -- FOREWORD -- INTRODUCTION -- 1. CYCLES AND TRENDS IN KRIKATI NAMING PRACTICES -- 2. THE RELATIONSHIP SYSTEM OF THE KRAHÓ -- 3. THE APINAYÉ RELATIONSHIP SYSTEM: TERMINOLOGY AND IDEOLOGY -- 4. EXIT AND VOICE IN CENTRAL BRAZIL: THE POLITICS OF FLIGHT IN KAYAPÓ SOCIETY -- 5. THE GÊ AND BORORO SOCIETIES AS DIALECTICAL SYSTEMS: A GENERAL MODEL -- 6. KINSHIP, HOUSEHOLD, AND COMMUNITY STRUCTURE AMONG THE KAYAPÓ -- 7. CULTURAL CATEGORIES OF THE CENTRAL GÊ -- 8. SELVES AND ALTERS AMONG THE EASTERN BORORO -- CONCLUSION: KINSHIP, IDEOLOGY, AND CULTURE -- REFERENCES. NOTES. INDEX -- REFERENCES -- NOTES -- INDEX

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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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In English.

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