First contacts, slavery and kinship in North-Eastern Amazonia / Vanessa Elisa Grotti, Marc Brightman.

Format:

Journal/Periodical

Author/Creator:

Grotti, Vanessa Elisa, author.

Brightman, Marc, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Interpersonal relations.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (80 pages)

Place of Publication:

New York : Berghahn Books, 2016.

Summary:

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 of Western, property-based, civilization.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

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