Onership and Nurture Studies in Native Amazonian Property Relations [Hardcover]

The first book to address the classic anthropological theme of property through the ethnography of Amazonia,Ownership and Nurturesets 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.

Marc Brightmanis Lecturer at the Department of Anthropology, University College London.

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

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