Marriage Practices in Lowland South America

Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1984 (Illinois Studies in Anthropology, No. 14)
Editor: Kenneth M. Kensinger

Contents:

• Chapter 1. Marriage Rules, Marriage Exchange, and the Definition of Marriage in Lowland South American Societies, by Judith R. Shapiro
• Chapter 2. A Husband for His Daughter, a Wife for Her Son: Strategies for Selecting a Set of In-laws among the Kalapalo, by Ellen Basso
• Chapter 3. The Structure of Kuikuru Marriage, by Gertrude E. Dole
• Chapter 4. Canela Marriage: Factors in Change, by William H. Crocker
• Chapter 5. Kagwahiv Moieties: Form without Function?, by Waud Kracke
• Chapter 6. Dualisms as an Expression of Difference and Danger: Marriage Exchange and Reciprocity among the Piaroa of Venezuela, by Joanna Overing Kaplan
• Chapter 10. An Emic Model of Cashinahua Marriage, by Kenneth M. Kensinger
• Chapter 11. Change in Wachipaeri Marriage Patterns, by Patricia J. Lyon