First contacts, slavery and kinship in North-Eastern Amazonia

Through ethnography of the Amazonia region, Ownership and Nurture sets new and challenging terms for debates about the classic anthropological theme of property. This volume demonstrates that property relations are of central importance in Amazonia despite portrayals of the region as the antithesis...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Grotti, Vanessa Elisa, author (author), Brightman, Marc, author
Formato: Revista digital
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Berghahn Books 2016.
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Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009820254506719
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • List of Figures Foreword James Leach Acknowledgements Map Introduction: Altering Ownership in Amazonia Marc Brightman, Carlos Fausto and Vanessa Grotti
  • Chapter 1. Masters, Slaves, and Real People: Native Understandings of Ownership and Humanness in Tropical American Capturing Societies Fernando Santos-Granero Chapter 2. First Contacts, Slavery and Kinship in Northeastern Amazonia Vanessa Grotti and Marc Brightman This chapter is open access under a Creative Commons Attribution International License (CC BY)
  • Chapter 3. Fabricating Necessity: Feeding and Commensality in Western Amazonia Luiz Costa
  • Chapter 4. Parasitism and Subjection: Modes of Paumari Predation Oiara Bonilla
  • Chapter 5. How Much for a Song? The Culture of Calculation and the Calculation of Culture Carlos Fausto
  • Chapter 6. The Forgotten Pattern and the Stolen Design: Contract, Exchange and Creativity Among the Kĩsêdjê Marcela Stockler Coelho de Souza
  • Chapter 7. Doubles and Owners: Relations of Knowledge, Property and Authorship Among the Marubo Pedro de Niemeyer Cesarino
  • Chapter 8. Ownership and Wellbeing Among the Mebêngôkre-Xikrin: Differentiation and Ritual Crisis Cesar Gordon
  • Chapter 9. Temporalities of Ownership: Land Possession and its Transformations Among the Tupinambá (Bahia, Brazil) Susana de Matos Viegas
  • Index.