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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]

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