The Fish People, Linguistic Exogamy and Tukanoan Identity in North Western Amazonia

The Fish People, Linguistic Exogamy and Tukanoan Identity in North Western Amazonia
Jean E. Jackson
CULTURAL PORTRAIT •  1983 •  PAPER  • 302 PAGES

The Bara, 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.  (AMZ116, $63.00)





 
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