{"product_id":"the-anthropology-of-marriage-in-lowland-south-america-bending-and-breaking-the-rules-hardcover","title":"The Anthropology of Marriage in Lowland South America: Bending and Breaking the Rules - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003ePaul Valentine\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eStephen Beckerman\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eAlès Catherine\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis volume reveals that individuals in Amazonian cultures often disregard or reinterpret the marriage rules of their societies--rules that anthropologists previously thought reflected practice. It is the first book to consider not just what the rules are but \u003ci\u003ehow\u003c\/i\u003e people in these societies negotiate, manipulate, and break them in choosing whom to marry.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eUsing ethnographic case studies that draw on previously unpublished material from well-known indigenous cultures, \u003ci\u003eThe Anthropology of Marriage in Lowland South America\u003c\/i\u003e defies the tendency to focus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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cb\u003eContributors: \u003c\/b\u003e Catherine Al s - Stephen Beckerman - Janet Chernela - William Crocker - Rosemary Diaz-Szynkowicz - Pamela Irene Erickson - Alexander Mansutti-Rodriguez - Peluso, Daniela - Fran ois-Ren  Picon - Dan Rosengren - Nal a Rosa Silva Monterrey - Lionel Sims - Paul Valentine - James Yost\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePaul Valentine\u003c\/b\u003e is professor emeritus of anthropology at the University of East London. \u003cb\u003eStephen Beckerman\u003c\/b\u003e is adjunct professor at the University of Utah. Together, Valentine and Beckerman have coedited \u003ci\u003eRevenge in the Cultures of Lowland South America\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eCultures of Multiple Fathers: The Theory and Practice of Partible Paternity in Lowland South America\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cb\u003eCatherine Alès\u003c\/b\u003e is director of research at the National Center for Scientific Research, Paris, and is the author of \u003ci\u003eYanomami, l'ire et le désir.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 316\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.88 x 9.02 x 5.98 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 09, 2017\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42737550426175,"sku":"9780813054315","price":145.73,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/5c091e593d0494d2165b0895ab0e8b83.webp?v=1765150322","url":"https:\/\/dhl-adrianne.myshopify.com\/products\/the-anthropology-of-marriage-in-lowland-south-america-bending-and-breaking-the-rules-hardcover","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}