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Title Ownership and nurture : studies in native Amazonian property relations / edited by Marc Brightman, Carlos Fausto and Vanessa Grotti
Published New York : Berghahn Books, 2016

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Contents Introduction : Altering Ownership in Amazonia / Marc Brightman, Carlos Fausto and Vanessa Grotti -- Masters, Slaves, and Real People : Native Understandings of Ownership and Humanness in Tropical American Capturing Societies / Fernando Santos-Granero -- First Contacts, Slavery and Kinship in Northeastern Amazonia / Vanessa Grotti and Marc Brightman -- Fabricating Necessity : Feeding and Commensality in Western Amazonia / Luiz Costa -- Parasitism and Subjection : Modes of Paumari Predation / Oiara Bonilla -- How Much for a Song : The Culture of Calculation and the Calculation of Culture / Carlos Fausto -- The Forgotten Pattern and the Stolen Design : Contract, Exchange and Creativity Among the Kĩsêdjê / Marcela Stockler Coelho de Souza -- Doubles and Owners : Relations of Knowledge, Property and Authorship Among the Marubo / Pedro de Niemeyer Cesarino -- Ownership and Wellbeing Amon Mêbengôkre-Xikrin : Differentiation and Ritual Crisis / Cesar Gordon -- Temporalities of Ownership: Land Possession and its Transformations Among the Tupinambá (Bahia, Brazil) / Susana de Matos Viegas
Summary 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 specific meanings in Amazonia, which has been portrayed as the antithesis of Western, property-based, civilization. Through carefully constructed studies of land ownership, slavery, shamanism, spirit mastery, aesthetics, and intellectual property, this volume demonstrates that property relations are of central importance in Amazonia, and that the ownership of persons plays an especially significant role in native cosmology
Analysis Amazzonia
Anthropology
Ethnography
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed May 17, 2016)
Subject 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
Sociology & anthropology.
HISTORY -- Latin America -- South America.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
Indians of South America -- Land tenure
Indians of South America -- Material culture
Land tenure
Material culture
Amazon River Region
Form Electronic book
Author Brightman, Marc, editor.
Fausto, Carlos, editor.
Grotti, Vanessa Elisa, editor.
ISBN 9781785330841
1785330845