Ownership and Nurture: Studies in Native Amazonian Property Relations

 
9781785330834: Ownership and Nurture: Studies in Native Amazonian Property Relations

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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.

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Informazioni sugli autori

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).



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).

Marc Brightman is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Bologna.

Vanessa Grotti is Part-time Professor at the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, European University Institute.

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9781789207545: Ownership and Nurture: Studies in Native Amazonian Property Relations

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ISBN 10:  1789207541 ISBN 13:  9781789207545
Casa editrice: Berghahn Books, 2020
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