Book
The fish people: linguistic exogamy and Tukanoan identity in northwest Amazonia
Cambridge University Press • (39) • Published In 1983 • Pages: xix, 287
By: Jackson, Jean E. (Jean Elizabeth).
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This book is primarily a study of the Bará or Fish People, one of several Tukanoan groups living in the Colombian Northwest Amazon. These people '…form part of an unusual network of intermarrying local communities scattered along the rivers of the 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 identity assumes a distinct and unusual configuration. In this book, Jean Jackson's incisive discussions of Bará marriage, kinship, spatial organization, and other features of the social and geographic landscape show how Tukanoans (as participants in the network are collectively known) conceptualize and tie together their universe of widely scattered communities, and how an individual's identity emerges in terms of relations with others' (back cover). Also discussed in the text are the effects of the Tukanoan's increasing dependency on the national and global political economy and their decreasing sense of self-worth and cultural autonomy.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Speech
- Linguistic identification
- Regulation of marriage
- Mode of marriage
- Clans
- Phratries
- Tribe and nation
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Tukano
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 1998
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- South America
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Amazon and Orinoco
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Ethnologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- John Beierle ; 1996
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1968-1970
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1968-1970
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Bará Indians, Pumanaka buro, Vaupés region, central area, Colombian northwest Amazon
- NotesAdditional notes
- Jean E. Jackson
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 259-272) and index
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 82023564
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Tukano Indians