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The structure of kinship and marriage among the Canelos Quichua of east-central Ecuadoressay 1984 • Whitten, Norman E. & Whitten, Dorothea S.
Canelos Quichua • South America > Amazon and Orinoco
This is a detailed study of kinship structure and marriaage among the Canelos Quichua of East-Central Ecuador. For the Canelos Quichua, marriage consists of a process of spouse acquisition (for a man, [n]huarmiyuj[/n], or the 'possession of a woman';...