Ownership and nurture studies in native Amazonian property relations / edited by Marc Brightman, Carlos Fausto and Vanessa Grotti.

Other author Brightman, Marc.
Other author Fausto, Carlos.
Other author Grotti, Vanessa Elisa.
Format Electronic
Publication InfoNew York ; Oxford : Berghahn Books, 2016.
Descriptionxii, 270 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
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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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
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Technical detailsMode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2015045877
ISBN9781785330834 (hardback : alk. paper)

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