Ownership and Nurture

Studies in Native Amazonian Property Relations

286 Seiten, Hardcover

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

The first book to address the classic anthropological theme of property through the ethnography of Amazonia. Sets new and challenging terms for anthropological debates about the region and about property in general. Demonstrates that property relations are of central importance in Amazonia, and that the ownership of persons plays an especially significant role in native cosmology.

• Themen: Gesellschaft und Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie und Anthropologie Anthropologie Sozial- und Kulturanthropologie, Ethnographie
• ISBN: 9781785330834
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 01.05.2016
• Größe: 235 x 157 mm
• Verlag: Berghahn Books
• Herausgegeben von: Carlos Fausto, Vanessa Grotti, Marc Brightman