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Nambiquara leadership
Author(s) -
PRICE DAVID
Publication year - 1981
Publication title -
american ethnologist
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.875
H-Index - 78
eISSN - 1548-1425
pISSN - 0094-0496
DOI - 10.1525/ae.1981.8.4.02a00020
Subject(s) - ethnography , compensation (psychology) , sociology , authoritarianism , grounded theory , social psychology , psychology , political science , qualitative research , social science , anthropology , law , politics , democracy
A study of Nambiquara leadership carried out to overcome preconceptions left by earlier ethnography shows an egalitarian system grounded in a social structure that emphasizes the ties between siblings. There is a slight tendency for authoritarian leaders to emerge in situations of constant danger. Extra wives are not so much a reward for leadership as an added responsibility. Men do not lead in return for compensation, but to ensure the well‐being of their kin. [egalitarian society, leadership, polygyny, lowland South America, ethnographic restudy]