The Fish People: Linguistic Exogamy and Tukanoan Identity in Northwest Amazonia

by Jean E. Jackson

Book Overview

The Bar , 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521278228
• ISBN13: 9780521278225
• Release Date: September 1983
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 308 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.0"