social equality and ritual hierarchy: the Arawakan Wakuénai of Venezuela
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- 1 August 1984
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in American Ethnologist
- Vol. 11 (3) , 528-544
Abstract
The social organization of Eastern Tukanoan peoples in the Northwest Amazon region shows a dual tendency toward egalitarian and hierarchical relationships. This paper provides new data on the neighboring Northern Arawakan peoples of the Isana and Guainía rivers. It explores the equality‐versus‐hierarchy contrast as a pair of distinct, yet interconnected, modes of structuring that create adaptive flexibility in response to extreme seasonal fluctuations of basic riverine resources.Keywords
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