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Terminology, alliance and change in Warao society
Nieuwe West-Indische Gids • 48 • Published In 1971 • Pages: 56-122
By: Suárez, Maria Matilde.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This article is an attempt to explain Warao society by means of formal analysis of the relationship terminology, a statement of the marriage rules, and an empirical examination of the alliance system. The author suggests on the basis of her analysis that Warao society has undergone a structural change from a two-section system of symmetric prescriptive alliance towards a cognatic and preferential system. An extensive review of earlier sources on Warao kinship is included, as well as statistical data on marital exchange in three Warao villages.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Kinship terminology
- Regulation of marriage
- Basis of marriage
- Mode of marriage
- History
- Reviews and critiques
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Warao
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2000
- 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
- essay
- 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.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- David Sherwood ; 1984
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1963-1968
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1825-1965
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Orinoco Delta, Venezuela; Hoana, Moninoko and Hanakasi villages situated on the Sacupana River near the Mission of Guayo
- NotesAdditional notes
- Maria Matilde Suárez
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 116-120)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 97652362
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Warao Indians