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Symbolic interaction in rituals of gender and procreation among the Garifuna (Black Caribs) of Hondurasarticle 1991 • Chernela, Janet Marion
Garifuna • Middle America and the Caribbean > Central America
In this article Chernela examines the practice of couvade among the Garifuna and presents it as a more complex ritual than one that merely seeks gender equivalence as conveyed in the ethnology. In fact she argues that the couvade as practiced among t...Marriage, language, and history among eastern Tukanoan speaking peoples of the northwest Amazonarticle 1989 • Chernela, Janet Marion
Tukano • South America > Amazon and Orinoco
This paper examines two societies -- the Arapaso of Brazil and the Makuna of Colombia -- as examples of exceptions to the prevalent practice of linguistic exogamy among eastern Tukanoan populations, and explains these apparent anomalies as a response...The Wanano Indians of the Brazilian AmazonBook 1993 • Chernela, Janet Marion
Tukano • South America > Amazon and Orinoco
This work is a study of the Wanano Indians, a Native American society located in the Uaupés River Basin in the northwest Amazon of Brazil. This group is characterized by a distinct language, name, ancestral history, rigidly bounded descent groups, an...