Dialectical Societies : : The Ge and Bororo of Central Brazil / / ed. by David Maybury-Lewis.

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• MitwirkendeR: Bamberger, Joan,; Crocker, J. Christopher,; Lave, Jean,; Matta, Roberto da,; Maybury-Lewis, David,; Melatti, Julio Gezar,; Turner, Terence S.,; Wagley, Charles,
• TeilnehmendeR: Bamberger, Joan.; Crocker, J. Christopher.; Lave, Jean.; Maybury-Lewis, Lewis.; Melatti, Julio Cezar.; Turner, Terence S.; da Matta, Roberto.
• HerausgeberIn: Maybury-Lewis, David,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2013]; ©1979
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Edition: Reprint 2014
• Language: English
• Series: Harvard Studies in Cultural Anthropology ; 1
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (340 p.) :; 14 tables, 12 figures, 1 map
• Other title: Frontmatter --; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS --; CONTENTS --; FOREWORD --; INTRODUCTION --; 1. CYCLES AND TRENDS IN KRIKATI NAMING PRACTICES --; 2. THE RELATIONSHIP SYSTEM OF THE KRAHÓ --; 3. THE APINAYÉ RELATIONSHIP SYSTEM: TERMINOLOGY AND IDEOLOGY --; 4. EXIT AND VOICE IN CENTRAL BRAZIL: THE POLITICS OF FLIGHT IN KAYAPÓ SOCIETY --; 5. THE GÊ AND BORORO SOCIETIES AS DIALECTICAL SYSTEMS: A GENERAL MODEL --; 6. KINSHIP, HOUSEHOLD, AND COMMUNITY STRUCTURE AMONG THE KAYAPÓ --; 7. CULTURAL CATEGORIES OF THE CENTRAL GÊ --; 8. SELVES AND ALTERS AMONG THE EASTERN BORORO --; CONCLUSION: KINSHIP, IDEOLOGY, AND CULTURE --; REFERENCES. NOTES. INDEX --; REFERENCES --; NOTES --; INDEX
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780674180727; 9783110353488; 9783110353556; 9783110442212
• DOI: 10.4159/harvard.9780674180727
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: ed. by David Maybury-Lewis.

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.