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Individual and Society in Guiana
Peter Riviere
其他書名
A Comparative Study of Amerindian Social Organisation
出版Cambridge University Press, 1984-12-28
主題Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural & Social
ISBN05212699709780521269971
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=GXx2QgAACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋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.