Ownership and nurture : studies in native Amazonian property relations

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Ownership and nurture : studies in native Amazonian property relations

edited by Marc Brightman, Carlos Fausto and Vanessa Grotti

Berghahn, 2016

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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  • 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 north-eastern 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 among the 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

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