Individual and Society in Guiana: A Comparative Study of Amerindian Social Organisation

by Peter Riviere

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 Rivi re 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521269970
• ISBN13: 9780521269971
• Release Date: December 1984
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 136 Pages
• Weight: 0.46 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"