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The Anthropology of Marriage in Lowland South America: Bending and Breaking the Rules
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The Anthropology of Marriage in Lowland South America: Bending and Breaking the Rules
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The Anthropology of Marriage in Lowland South America: Bending and Breaking the Rules
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Using ethnographic case studies that draw on previously unpublished material from well-known indigenous cultures,
defies the tendency to focus only on the social structure of kinship and marriage that is so common in kinship studies. Instead, the contributors to this volume examine the people that conform to or deviate from that structure and their reasons for doing so. They look not only at deviations in kinship behavior motivated by gender, economics, politics, history, ecology, and sentimentality but also at how globalization and modernization are changing the ancestral norms and values themselves. This is a richly diverse portrayal of agency and individual choice alongside normative kinship and marriage systems in a region that has long been central to anthropological studies of indigenous life.