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The fish people : linguistic exogamy and Tukanoan identity in northwest Amazonia / Jean E. Jackson.
Penn Museum Library F2520.1.T9 J3 1983
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Jackson, Jean E. (Jean Elizabeth), 1943-
- Series:
- Cambridge studies in social anthropology ; no. 39.
- Cambridge studies in social anthropology ; no. 39
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Tucano Indians--Social life and customs.
- Tucano Indians.
- Barasana Indians--Social life and customs.
- Barasana Indians.
- Indians of South America--Colombia--Social life and customs.
- Indians of South America.
- Manners and customs.
- Colombia.
- Physical Description:
- xix, 287 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge [Cambridgeshire] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1983.
- Contents:
- Social identity 2
- Regional perspective 5
- Fluidity 8
- Ideal and real 9
- 2 Introduction to the Central Northwest Amazon 13
- Ecological setting 13
- The population 17
- Language and linguistics 19
- Ethnic history 21
- Early explorer and missionary efforts 22
- Early and recent ethnographic descriptions 23
- The Maku 24
- A note on acculturation 24
- 3 The longhouse 26
- The setting 26
- The people of Pumanaka buro 26
- The longhouse structure 30
- Outside the longhouse 31
- Inside the longhouse 33
- Significance of the longhouse 36
- 4 Economic and political life 39
- Daily patterns 39
- The river 42
- The forest 46
- Cultivated foods 50
- Exchange in general 59
- Property 62
- Leadership 65
- 5 Vaupes social structure 69
- The settlement 69
- The sib 71
- The language group 77
- The phratry 86
- Regional integration and interaction between settlements 96
- 6 Kinship 105
- Kinship terminology 106
- Expectations and behavior 108
- Specific kinship roles 117
- 7 Marriage 124
- Principles of marriage 125
- Marriage behavior 138
- 8 Tukanoans and Maku 148
- Background to the Maku 148
- Tukanoan attitudes toward the Maku 151
- Interaction between Tukanoans and Maku 154
- Maku as symbol to Tukanoans 158
- 9 The role of language and speech in Tukanoan identity 164
- Vaupes language and speech as badges of identity 165
- How Vaupes languages assume features of the nonlinguistic environment 171
- The importance of language in Tukanoan culture 177
- 10 Male and female identity 179
- Relations between men and women 181
- 11 Tukanoans' place in the cosmos 195
- Shamanism 195
- Festivals 202
- The Tukanoan world 204
- 12 Tukanoans and the outside world 211
- Extractive industries 215
- Homesteaders 217
- The Colombian government 217
- Missions 218
- Mitu 223
- 13 Conclusions: themes in Tukanoan social identity 227
- Types of comparisons 227
- Themes associated with social identity 231
- A note on types of evidence 239.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Bibliography : pages 259-272.
- ISBN:
- 0521239214
- OCLC:
- 9112189
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