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156:. Rather, the particular is important as a means to connect theory, methodology, and context. Lowland South American groups are not bearers of distinctive traits to be inventoried and classified, but organized totalities responding to specific social rules, laws, and constraints. Interest in the particular, therefore, results from an appreciation of the necessity of accurate scholarship, no less than brave new worlds of theory, as Rivière's work on the dialectical relationship between cosmological schemas and forms of social organization demonstrates." 371: 383: 33: 359: 145:, today considered a classic of modern Amerindian anthropology, was regarded as "the most elegant summary and review of the central findings and debates in the ethnography of the Amerindian peoples of Guiana over the last three decades." 133:
at Oxford in 1965, and taught there from 1971 until his retirement, in 2001. He was part of young generation of anthropologists who set new, professional standards of ethnography in Amazonia. He conducted extensive fieldwork among the
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In 2001, a group of his former students, today well established scholars in several major universities, edited a book celebrating his contributions to the field, where they underscored that:
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In recent years, his work has turned more historical. He edited reprints of the Victorian classics by John McLennan and John Lubbock for the University of Chicago and a collection on the
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Rivière, P. 1984. Individual and society in Guiana: a comparative study of Amerindian social organization. Cambridge: University Press
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Rivière, P. 1969. Marriage among the Trio: a principle of social organisation. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
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Rivière, P. 1983-84. Aspects of Carib political economy. Antropológica 59-62: 349-358.
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Whitehead, N.L. 1986. Book Review. Bulletin of Latin American Research, 5(1): 154"
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1835-1844, 2 vols (Aldershot: Ashgate for the Hakluyt Society, 2006).
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Rivière, P. 2000. Indians and cowboys: two field experiences. In
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of Surinam and among cattle ranchers of the Brazilian frontier.
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Oxford University School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnology
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edited by Paul Dresch, Wendy James and David Parkin.
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British
University of Oxford
social anthropologist
Oxford University
Amazonian peoples
British social anthropologist
Oxford University
Audrey Butt Colson
Amazonian peoples
Oxford and Cambridge Expedition to South America
D.Phil in Social Anthropology
Tiriyo
Boasians
history of Oxford anthropology
Hakluyt Society
"School of Anthropology & Museum Ethnography: Prof Peter Rivière"
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"Professor Peter Rivière"
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Robert Schomburgk
An interview with Peter Rivière
Portals
Biography
University of Oxford
United Kingdom

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