Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of figures, maps, and tables
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Note on orthography
- 1 Purpose and organization of the book
- 2 Introduction to the Central Northwest Amazon
- 3 The longhouse
- 4 Economic and political life
- 5 Vaupés social structure
- 6 Kinship
- 7 Marriage
- 8 Tukanoans and Makú
- 9 The role of language and speech in Tukanoan identity
- 10 Male and female identity
- 11 Tukanoans' place in the cosmos
- 12 Tukanoans and the outside world
- 13 Conclusions: themes in Tukanoan social identity
- Notes
- Glossary
- References
- Index
- CAMBRIDGE STUDIES IN SOCIAL ANTHROPOLOGY
Note on orthography
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of figures, maps, and tables
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Note on orthography
- 1 Purpose and organization of the book
- 2 Introduction to the Central Northwest Amazon
- 3 The longhouse
- 4 Economic and political life
- 5 Vaupés social structure
- 6 Kinship
- 7 Marriage
- 8 Tukanoans and Makú
- 9 The role of language and speech in Tukanoan identity
- 10 Male and female identity
- 11 Tukanoans' place in the cosmos
- 12 Tukanoans and the outside world
- 13 Conclusions: themes in Tukanoan social identity
- Notes
- Glossary
- References
- Index
- CAMBRIDGE STUDIES IN SOCIAL ANTHROPOLOGY
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- The Fish PeopleLinguistic Exogamy and Tukanoan Identity in Northwest Amazonia, pp. xviii - xxPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1983