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The Fish People: Linguistic Exogamy and Tukanoan Identity in Northwest Amazonia - Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology Jackson, Jean E. (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
The Fish People: Linguistic Exogamy and Tukanoan Identity in Northwest Amazonia - Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology
Jackson, Jean E. (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
The Bará, or Fish people of the Northwest Amazon form part of a network of intermarrying local communities - each community speaks a different language and marriages must take place between people from different communities with different languages. Here, Jean Jackson discusses Bar· marriage, kinship, spatial organization and other features of their social landscape.
308 pages, maps, tables, glossary index, references
| Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
| Released | September 30, 1983 |
| ISBN13 | 9780521278225 |
| Publishers | Cambridge University Press |
| Pages | 308 |
| Dimensions | 228 × 153 × 24 mm · 508 g |
| Language | English |
| Series Editor | Fortes, Meyer |
| Series Editor | Goody, Jack |
| Series Editor | Leach, Edmund |
| Series Editor | Tambiah, Stanley Jeyaraja |