Chapter 2 First Contacts, Slavery and Kinship in North-Eastern Amazonia
Author(s)
Grotti, Vanessa
Brightman, Marc
Collection
WellcomeLanguage
EnglishAbstract
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.
Keywords
Slavery; Kinship; North-Eastern AmazoniaDOI
10.2307/j.ctvpj7h8pISBN
9781785330834OCN
1076725735Publisher
Berghahn BooksPublisher website
https://berghahnbooks.com/Publication date and place
USA/UK, 2016Grantor
Classification
Anthropology