Ownership and nurture studies in native Amazonian property relations

The first book to address the classic anthropological theme of property through the ethnography of Amazonia, Ownership and Nurture sets new and challenging terms for anthropological debates about the region and about property in general. Property and ownership have special significance and carry spe...

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Otros Autores:	Grotti, Vanessa (auth), Brightman, Marc, editor (editor), Fausto, Carlos, editor, Grotti, Vanessa Elisa, editor
Formato:	Libro electrónico
Idioma:	Inglés
Publicado:	USA/UK Berghahn Books 2016 New York, [New York] ; Oxford, [England] : 2016.
Materias:	Indians of South America > Material culture > Amazon River Region. Indians of South America > Land tenure > Amazon River Region. Material culture > Amazon River Region. Land tenure > Amazon River Region. aesthetics. amazonia. antithesis of western property based civilization. carefully constructed. classic anthropological theme of property. detailed. ethnography of amazonia. intellectual property. land ownership. native cosmology. ownership of persons. property and ownership. property relations are central importance. shamanism. slavery. spirit mastery.
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Contents; Figures; Foreword; Acknowledgements; Introduction - Altering Ownership in Amazonia; Chapter 1 - Masters, Slaves and Real People: Native Understandings of Ownership and Humanness in Tropical American Capturing Societies; Chapter 2 - First Contacts, Slavery and Kinship in North-Eastern Amazonia; Chapter 3 - Fabricating Necessity: Feeding and Commensality in Western Amazonia; Chapter 4 - Parasitism and Subjection: Modes of Paumari Predation; Chapter 5 - How Much for a Song? The Culture of Calculation and the Calculation of Culture
Chapter 6 - The Forgotten Pattern and the Stolen Design: Contract, Exchange and Creativity among the KisdejeChapter 7 - Doubles and Owners: Relations of Knowledge, Property and Authorship among the Marubo; Chapter 8 - Ownership and Well-Being among the Mebengokre-Xikrin: Differentiation and Ritual Crisis; Chapter 9 - Temporalities of Ownership: Land Possession and Its Transformations among the Tupinambá (Bahia, Brazil); Index

Ownership and nurture studies in native Amazonian property relations

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