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Individual and Society in Guiana: A Comparative Study of Amerindian Social Organisation

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Individual and Society in Guiana: A Comparative Study of Amerindian Social Organisation - Riviere, Peter
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The Amerindian peoples of Guiana, the geographical region of north-east South America, have long been recognized as forming a distinct variety of the tropical forest culture. In this book, Peter Rivi???re 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. By ...

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Individual and Society in Guiana: A Comparative Study of Amerindian Social Organisation 1984, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge

ISBN-13: 9780521269971

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