Chapter 2 First Contacts, Slavery and Kinship in North-Eastern Amazonia

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 spe...

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Tipo de recurso:
Book
Fecha de publicación:
2016
Institución:
Universidad de Bogotá Jorge Tadeo Lozano
Repositorio:
Expeditio: repositorio UTadeo
Idioma:
eng
OAI Identifier:
oai:expeditiorepositorio.utadeo.edu.co:20.500.12010/18559
Acceso en línea:
https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/35667
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12010/18559
Palabra clave:
Slavery
Kinship
North-Eastern Amazonia
Esclavitud
Esclavitud en América
Esclavitud en América - Condición de los esclavos
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Summary: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.