Title: The fish people :
Authors: Jackson, Jean E.
Date: 1983
Publisher: Cambridge University Press,
Physical description: xix, 287 p. : ill., geneal. tables, maps ; 24 cm.
Language: English
LC class: F
Contents: Social identity -- Regional perspective -- Fluidity -- Ideal and real -- Introduction to the Central Northwest Amazon -- Ecological setting -- The population -- Language and linguistics -- Ethnic history -- Early explorer and missionary efforts -- Early and recent ethnographic descriptions -- The Maku -- A note on acculturation -- The longhouse -- The setting -- The people of Pumanaka buro -- The longhouse structure -- Outside the longhouse -- Inside the longhouse -- Significance of the longhouse -- Economic and political life -- Daily patterns -- The river -- The forest -- Cultivated foods -- Exchange in general -- Property -- Leadership -- Vaupes social structure -- The settlement -- The sib -- The language group -- The phratry -- Regional integration and interaction between settlements -- Kinship -- Kinship terminology -- Expectations and behavior -- Specific kinship roles -- Marriage -- Principles of marriage -- Marriage behavior -- Tukanoans and Maku -- Background to the Maku -- Tukanoan attitudes toward the Maku -- Interaction between Tukanoans and Maku -- Maku as symbol to Tukanoans -- The role of language and speech in Tukanoan identity -- Vaupes language and speech as badges of identity -- How Vaupes languages assume features of the nonlinguistic environment -- The importance of language in Tukanoan culture -- Male and female identity -- Relations between men and women -- Tukanoans' place in the cosmos -- Shamanism -- Festivals -- The Tukanoan world -- Tukanoans and the outside world -- Extractive industries -- Homesteaders -- The Colombian government -- Missions -- Mitu -- Conclusions: themes in Tukanoan social identity -- Types of comparisons -- Themes associated with social identity -- A note on types of evidence.
Notes: Includes index.