Dialectical Societies : The Gê and Bororo of Central Brazil / David Maybury-Lewis.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bamberger, Joan.

Crocker, J. Christopher.

Lave, Jean.

Maybury-Lewis, David, editor.

Maybury-Lewis, Lewis.

Melatti, Julio Cezar.

Turner, Terence S.

Matta, Roberto da.

Series:

Harvard Studies in Cultural Anthropology

Harvard Studies in Cultural Anthropology ; 1

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bororo Indians.

SOCIAL SCIENCE / General.

Tapuya Indians.

Local Subjects:

Bororo Indians.

SOCIAL SCIENCE / General.

Tapuya Indians.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (354 p.): Zahlr. Abb.

Edition:

Reprint 2014

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2014]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The Gê-speaking tribes of Central Brazil have always been an anomaly in the annals of anthropology; their exceedingly simple technology contrasts sharply with their highly complex sociological and ideological traditions. Dialectical Societies, the outgrowth of extended anthropological research organized by David Maybury-Lewis, at long last demystifies Gê social structure while modifying and reinterpreting some of the traditional ideas held about kinship, affiliation, and descent. Each of the seven contributors deals with a different lowland tribe, but all of them address an ideological focus on the dualistic tribal organization that is here defined as fundamental to the Gê As a collection, their work comprises a substantial revision of the hitherto undeveloped and largely ignored ethnography of Central Brazil.

Contents:

Frontmatter

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

CONTENTS

FOREWORD / Wagley, Charles

INTRODUCTION

1. CYCLES AND TRENDS IN KRIKATI NAMING PRACTICES / Lave, Jean

2. THE RELATIONSHIP SYSTEM OF THE KRAHÓ / Melatti, Julio Gezar

3. THE APINAYÉ RELATIONSHIP SYSTEM: TERMINOLOGY AND IDEOLOGY / Matta, Roberto da

4. EXIT AND VOICE IN CENTRAL BRAZIL: THE POLITICS OF FLIGHT IN KAYAPÓ SOCIETY / Bamberger, Joan

5. THE GÊ AND BORORO SOCIETIES AS DIALECTICAL SYSTEMS: A GENERAL MODEL / Turner, Terence S.

6. KINSHIP, HOUSEHOLD, AND COMMUNITY STRUCTURE AMONG THE KAYAPÓ / Turner, Terence S.

7. CULTURAL CATEGORIES OF THE CENTRAL GÊ / Maybury-Lewis, David

8. SELVES AND ALTERS AMONG THE EASTERN BORORO / Crocker, J. Christopher

CONCLUSION: KINSHIP, IDEOLOGY, AND CULTURE / Maybury-Lewis, David

REFERENCES. NOTES. INDEX

REFERENCES

NOTES

INDEX

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Mai 2019)

ISBN:

0-674-18072-0

OCLC:

1024040766