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Ceremonial redistribution in Tapirapé societyBook 1968 • Shapiro, Judith R. (Judith Rae)
Tapirapé • South America > Eastern South America
This paper begins with a commentary on the individualization of production and ownership in Tapirape society which is balanced by patterns of exchange, both of an ordinary day-to-day nature, and other forms connected with more formalized or ceremonia...The Tapirapé during the era of reconstructionessay 1979 • Shapiro, Judith R. (Judith Rae)
Tapirapé • South America > Eastern South America
This article is basically a study of the history of the Tapirapé during the twentieth century, particularly since they began to have sustained contact with outsiders in the 1930s. Shapiro describes early contacts of the Tapirapé with their more aggre...