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Ownership and Nurture: Studies in Native Amazonian Property Relations
Marc Brightman (Ed.)
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Description for Ownership and Nurture: Studies in Native Amazonian Property Relations
Hardback. Through ethnography of the Amazonia region, Ownership and Nurture sets new and challenging terms for debates about the classic anthropological theme of property. This volume demonstrates that property relations are of central importance in Amazonia despite portrayals of the region as the antithesis of Western, property-based, civilization. Editor(s): Brightman, Marc; Grotti, Vanessa Elisa; Fausto, Carlos. Num Pages: 278 pages, 23 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KLS; JHMC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 160 x 236 x 21. Weight in Grams: 544.
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.
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.
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Berghahn Books
Condition
New
Number of Pages
284
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781785330834
SKU
V9781785330834
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About Marc Brightman (Ed.)
Marc Brightman is Lecturer at the Department of Anthropology, University College London. 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). Vanessa Grotti is Part-time Professor at the Robert Schuman Centre for ... Read more
Reviews for Ownership and Nurture: Studies in Native Amazonian Property Relations
The ethnographies close... culminating a unique and important challenge to conventional conceptions of property and ownership in Western society. They... definitively demonstrate that ownership and property are not foreign to indigenous or `traditional' societies, that... ownership and property are diverse and culturally constructed notions. These insights are welcome in anthropology and should alter how we think about and research objects ... Read more