Ownership and Nurture

Studies in Native Amazonian Property Relations
1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-1-78920-754-5
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, 284 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 418 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Brightman, Marc

Fausto, Carlos

Grotti, Vanessa

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Historische & Regionale Volkskunde
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Indigene Völker
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Kultur- und Sozialethnologie: Materielle Kultur, Wirtschaftsethnologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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 Kisêdjê

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

Über Autor(innen)

Grotti, Vanessa
Vanessa Grotti is Part-time Professor at the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, European University Institute.

Brightman, Marc
Marc Brightman is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Bologna.

Fausto, Carlos
Carlos Fausto is Professor of Anthropology at the Museu Nacional, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, and Senior Fellow of the National Council for the Development of Science and Technology (CNPq).

Marc Brightman is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Bologna.