Contents
Preface
Guide to Pronunciation
1. Introduction: The Status of Carib Ethnography - Ellen B. Basso
2. A Survey of the Carib Language Family - Marshall Durbin
3. Some Problems in the Comparative Study of Carib Societies - Peter G. Riviere
4. The Akawaio Shaman - Audrey Butt Colson
5. Carijona and Manakini: An Opposition in the Mythology of a Carib Tribe - Helmut Schindler
6. On Being Carib - Lee Drummond
7. From Dogs to Stars: The Phatic Function of Naming Among the Panare - Jean-Paul Dumont
8. The Kalapalo Dietary System - Ellen B. Basso
9. A Study of the Process of Village Formation in Ye'cuana Society - Nelly Arvelo-Jimenez
10. The Akuriyo Way of Death - Peter Kloos