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The Kalapalo Indians of Central Brazil are one of a few surviving indigenous cultures that is uniquely protected by a national reserve in lowland South America. Through no effort of their own, they have been isolated artificially from Brazilian social and economic influences that reach almost every other Indian tribe in Brazil. This unusual situation has made it possible for the Kalapalo's culture to be undisturbed by the outside world and the surrounding tribes. Much …

…examines the beliefs and ideal behavior of a people and their actual behaviors by understanding kinship practices. It also examines the theory of kinship and the development of functional anthropology. This book also includes the theories and perspectives of Malinowski and Radcliffe-Brown. This book has been helpful in my research because it has broken down the kinship system and other kinship classifications. It analyze the kinship structure and the kin groups through simple explanatory graphs.