Ownership and nurture : : studies in native Amazonian property relations / / edited by Marc Brightman, Carlos Fausto and Vanessa Grotti.
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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| Place / Publishing House: | New York, [New York] ;, Oxford, [England] : : Berghahn,, 2016. ©2016 |
| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
| Language: | English |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (284 p.) |
| Notes: | Description based upon print version of record. |
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Table of Contents:
- 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