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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.
List of contents
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
About the author
Marc Brightman is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Bologna.
