The purpose of this paper is to sketch a tentative outline of the relationships between terminologies and conventional attitudes among the indian peoples of Northeast South America, region referred to as "Guiana", in the recent ethographic litterature. The exercise consists in dealing with these spheres of the kinship systems in the same way Lévi-Strauss proceeded with the variant forms of a myth.
kinship systems; terminologies and conventional attitudes; Guiana amerindian peoples
