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This volume reveals that individuals in Amazonian cultures often
disregard or reinterpret the marriage rules of their
societies-rules that anthropologists previously thought reflected
practice. It is the first book to consider not just what the rules
are but how people in these societies negotiate, manipulate, and
break them in choosing whom to marry. Ethnographic case studies
drawn on previously unpublished material from well-known indigenous
cultures show that the peoples of lowland South America select
spouses to meet their economic and political goals, their social
aspirations, and their emotional desires. Contributors also look at
how globalization and modernization are changing ancestral norms
and values. This volume is a richly diverse portrayal of agency and
individual choice alongside normative kinship and marriage systems
in a region that has long been central to anthropological studies
of indigenous life.
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