{"product_id":"the-fish-people-linguistic-exogamy-and-tukanoan-identity-in-northwest-amazonia-paperback-9780521278225","title":"The Fish People; Linguistic Exogamy and Tukanoan Identity in Northwest Amazonia (Paperback) 9780521278225","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe Fish People\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eLinguistic Exogamy and Tukanoan Identity in Northwest Amazonia\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eJean E. Jackson (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780521278225, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback, published 30 September 1983\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e308 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.8 cm, 0.46 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eThe Bará, or Fish People, of the Northwest Amazon form part of an unusual network of intermarrying local communities scattered along the rivers of this region. Each community belongs to one of sixteen different groups that speak sixteen different languages, and marriages must take place between people not only from different communities but with different primary languages. In a network of this sort, which defies the usual label of 'tribe', social identity assumes a distinct and unusual configuration. In this book, Jean Jackson's incisive discussions of Bará marriage, kinship, spatial organization, and other features of the social and geographic landscape show how Tukanoans (as participants in the network are collectively known) conceptualize and tie together their universe of widely scattered communities, and how an individual's identity emerges in terms of relations with others. As theoretically challenging as it is unique, the Tukanoan system bears on a wide range of issues of current anthropological concern, such as how to analyze open-ended regional systems in small-scale societies, ideal versus actual patterns of behaviour, identity as both structure and action, and indigenous use of multiple, even conflicting, models of social structure. Professor Jackson's thoughtful discussions also extend to broader social scientific issues concerning the relation of language to culture, the presence or absence of individualism in pre-state societies, the nature of ethnic boundaries, the interplay between observation of behaviour and its interpretation (on the part of both native and anthropologist), and the achievement of flexibility and self-interested goals while applying seemingly rigid social structural principles.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eList of figures, maps and tables\u003cbr\u003e Preface\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e Note on orthography\u003cbr\u003e 1. Purpose and organization of the book\u003cbr\u003e 2. Introduction to the central Northwest Amazon\u003cbr\u003e 3. Longhouse\u003cbr\u003e 4. Economic and political life\u003cbr\u003e 5. Vaupés social structure\u003cbr\u003e 6. Kinship\u003cbr\u003e 7. Marriage\u003cbr\u003e 8. Tukanoans and Makú\u003cbr\u003e 9. The role of language and speech in Tukanoan identity\u003cbr\u003e 10. Male and female identity\u003cbr\u003e 11. Tukanoans' place in the cosmos\u003cbr\u003e 12. Tukanoans and the outside world\u003cbr\u003e 13. Conclusions: themes in Tukanoan social identity\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Glossary\u003cbr\u003e References\u003cbr\u003e Index.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Sociolinguistics [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Sociolinguistics\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Sociolinguistics%20%5BCFB%5D%22\"\u003eCFB\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46006970941720,"sku":"9780521278225","price":46.47,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9780521278225i_abc7224d-03c6-4f6b-8a69-bac1b4a5a224.jpg?v=1691374401","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/the-fish-people-linguistic-exogamy-and-tukanoan-identity-in-northwest-amazonia-paperback-9780521278225","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}