Author: Kensinger, Kenneth M.; editor:
Title: Marriage Practices in Lowland South America
Description: Urbana [IL], University of Illinois Press, (1984). orig. wrappers. 22x15cm, xii,297 pp. Series: Illinois Studies in Anthropology No. 1.. Textual maps,tables,diagrams. Minor rubbing. Slight cover spotting. VG. ¶ Contains 11 papers. Includes: J.R. Shapiro: "Marriage Rules; Marriage Exchange, and the Definition of Marriage in Lowland South American Societies"; E.B. Basso: "A Husband for His Daughter, a Wife for Her Son: Strategies for Selecting a Set of In-laws among the Kalapalo"; G.E. Dole: The Structure of Kuikuru Marriage: Factors in Change"; W.H. Crocker: Canela Marriage: Factors in Change"; W.H. Kracke: "Kagwahiv Moieties: Form without Function?"; J.O. Kaplan: "Dualisms as an Expression of Differences and Danger: Marriage Exchange and Reciprocity among the Piaroa of Venezuela"; J.E. Jackson: "Vaupés Marriage Practices"; A.P. Sorensen: " Linguistic Exogamy and Personal Choice in the Northwest Amazon"; N.E. Whitten & D.S. Whitten: "The Structure of Kinship and Marriage among the Canelos Quichua of East-Central Ecuador"; K.M. Kensinger: An Emic Model of Cashinahua Marriage"; P.J. Lyon: Change in Wachipaeri Marriage Patterns".

Keywords: Social Anthropology, American Indians, South America, Native Americans, Sociology Amerind, Ethnography Canela, Cashinahua Marriage, Quichua Vaupes, Piaroa Kagwahiv