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Individual and society in Guiana : a comparative study of Amerindian social organization / Peter Rivière

Rivière, Peter,i1934- [Verfasser]

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1984

Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press

1 Online-Ressource (vii, 127 pages)

Cambridge studies in social and cultural anthropology ; 51

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015)

978-0-511-55811-5 ; 978-0-521-26453-2 ; 978-0-521-26997-1

MS 9500

 

Guayana  Sozialstruktur  Indianer 

 

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The Amerindian peoples of Guiana, the geographical region of north-east South America, have long been recognized as forming a distinct variety of the tropical forest culture. In this book, Peter Rivière employs a comparative perspective to reveal that Guianan societies, generally characterized as socially fluid and amorphous, are in fact much more highly structured than they first appear, and he identifies certain common patterns of social organization that result from sets of individual choices and relationships. By contrasting the characteristics of Guianan society with those from elsewhere in Lowland South America, he constructs a spectrum of complexity of Amerindian social structure, and argues that the Guianan variant represents the logically simplest form of organization in the area.