Vital Diplomacy

The Ritual Everyday on a Dammed River in Amazonia
1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-1-78533-406-1
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, Band 5, 302 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 591 g

Reihe: Ethnography, Theory, Experiment

In Brazil, where forest meets savanna, new towns, agribusiness and hydroelectricity plants form a patchwork with the indigenous territories. Here, agricultural work, fishing, songs, feasts and exchanges occupy the Enawenê-nawê  for eight months of each year, during a season called Yankwa. Vital Diplomacy focuses on this major ceremonial cycle to shed new light on classic Amazonian themes such as kinship, gender, manioc cultivation and cuisine, relations with non-humans and foreigners, and the interplay of myth and practice, exploring how ritual contains and diverts the threat of violence by reconciling antagonistic spirits, coordinating social and gender divides, and channelling foreign relations and resources.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Nahum-Claudel, Chloe

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Indigene Völker
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Kultur- und Sozialethnologie: Allgemeines
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Agrarsoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgements

A Note on Language

Map

Introduction

Chapter 1. Mastery and Subjection at the Fishing Dams

Chapter 2. The Fishermen Return ‘like Yakairiti’

Chapter 3. Routine Ritualism and a Festival of Abundance

Chapter 4. Affinal Diplomacy in a United, Egalitarian Society

Chapter 5. Cosmic Diplomacy: Cooking, Curing and Crafting Human Life

Chapter 6. Yankwa’s Foreign Diplomacy and Saluma’s Defiance

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Nahum-Claudel, Chloe
Chloe Nahum-Claudel is a Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellow in the LSE Department of Social Anthropology. She has previously held research fellowships at Pembroke College, University of Cambridge, and at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales.