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The CubeoBook 1963 • Goldman, Irving
Tukano • South America > Amazon and Orinoco
This book was written after ten months' field work among the Cubeo (a Tucano subgroup living on the Vaupés River) during the years 1939-1940. The author was 'adopted' into the household of the headman of the Bahúkiwa sib, and much of the data present...Perceptions of nature and the structure of societyarticle 1976 • Goldman, Irving
Tukano • South America > Amazon and Orinoco
This brief article discusses the Cubeo descent systems as part of the social structure of the Indian communities living in the Cuduiari and Vaupés regions of southeastern Colombia. According to Goldman the Cubeo social structure falls within the fami...