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In this book, Peter Riviére employs a comparative perspective to reveal that Guianan societies, generally characterized as socially fluid and amorphous, are in fact much more highly structured than they first appear, and he identifies certain common patterns of social organization that result from sets of individual choices and relationships.Riviere, Peter is the author of 'Individual and Society in Guiana', published 1984 under ISBN 9780521269971 and ISBN 0521269970.
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