Anthropology of Marriage in Lowland South America

Bending and Breaking the Rules

Inbunden, Engelska, 2017

AvPaul Valentine,Stephen Beckerman,Catherine Alès

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This volume reveals that individuals in Amazonian cultures often disregard or reinterpret the marriage rules of their societies—rules that anthropologists previously thought reflected practice. It is the first book to consider not just what the rules are but how people in these societies negotiate, manipulate, and break them in choosing whom to marry.Ethnographic case studies drawn on previously unpublished material from well-known indigenous cultures show that the peoples of lowland South America select spouses to meet their economic and political goals, their social aspirations, and their emotional desires. Contributors also look at how globalization and modernization are changing ancestral norms and values. This volume is a richly diverse portrayal of agency and individual choice alongside normative kinship and marriage systems in a region that has long been central to anthropological studies of indigenous life.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2017-05-09
Mått152 x 229 x 16 mm
Vikt580 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor304
FörlagUniversity Press of Florida
ISBN9780813054315

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Sociologi inom Samhälle och politik
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Paul Valentine is former senior lecturer of anthropology at the University of East London.Stephen Beckerman is associate professor emeritus of anthropology at Pennsylvania State University. Together, Beckerman and Valentine have coedited Revenge in the Cultures of Lowland South America and Cultures of Multiple Fathers: The Theory and Practice of Partible Paternity in Lowland South America. Catherine Alès is director of research at the National Center for Scientific Research, Paris, and is the author of Yanomami, l’ire et le désir.

Foremost scholars of indigenous Amazonia explore the vast and interesting gap between rules and practice, demonstrating how sociocultural systems endure and even prosper due to the flexibility, creativity, and resilience of the people within them.”—Jeremy M. Campbell, author of Conjuring Property: Speculation and Environmental Futures in the Brazilian Amazon “A landmark volume and a major contribution to the study of kinship and marriage in Amazonian societies, an area of the world that has been pivotal to our understanding of the biocultural dimensions of cousin marriage and polygamy.”—Nancy E. Levine, author of The Dynamics of Polyandry: Kinship, Domesticity, and Population on the Tibetan Border