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Revenge in the cultures of lowland South America / ed. by Stephen Beckerman and Paul Valentine

Beckerman, Stephen, 1942- [Hrsg.] ; Valentine, Paul, 1942-

Gainesville [u.a.] : University Press of Florida, c2008

XXII, 314 S ; 25 cm

Englisch

Revenge : an overview / Stephen Beckerman

Revenge : an overview /Stephen Beckerman --Revenge and reproduction : the biopolitics of caring and killing in native Amazonia /Beth A. Conklin --Compelling exchanges : Curripaco revenge and warfare /Paul Valentine --Guesting, feasting, and raiding : transformations of violence in the northwest Amazon /Janet Chernela --On cannibalism, Yanomami warfare, temporality, and production of life /Catherine Alès --Life for a life : Barí responses to murder in the Sierra de Perijá /Manuel Lizarralde --Revenge, bride capture, and gender strategies for survival among the Waorani /Pamela Erickson --Inca policies to contain revenge /Catherine Julien --Canela vengeance : formerly compulsory, currently dissipated /William H. Crocker --Revenge, envy, and cultural change in an Amazonian society /Carolina Izquierdo, Allen Johnson, and Glenn H. Shepard Jr. --"The jaguar's pineapple" : Secoya shamanic violence and the dangers of cannibalism in the Ecuadorian Amazon /María Susana Cipolletti --Social control, revenge, and identity among the Caura Ye'kwana of Venezuela /Nalúa Rosa Silva Monterrey and Paul Valentine --Envy and revenge : the case of the Piaroa /Alexander Mansutti Rodríguez --Animals' revenge /Suzanne Oakdale --Onomastic vengeance and the writing of history /Daniela M. Peluso --Vengeance, societies, and powers in Amazonian societies /Raymond Verdier.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [271]-289) and index

0-8130-3164-8 (alk. paper); 978-0-8130-3164-4 (alk. paper)

2007032161

OCoLC: 237218694     

OCoLC: 163707420 (aus SWB)     

LB 48645      Ähnliche Literatur

BF637.R48

305.80098

Basisklassifikation: 73.70 (Politische Ethnologie: Allgemeines)

*Südamerika ; Tiefland ; Indianer ; Rache      Zum Register

LOC-SH: Revenge -- South America ; Retribution -- South America ; Violence -- South America ; Murder -- South America ; South America -- Social conditions ; Revenge -- South America ; Retribution -- South America ; Violence -- South America ; Murder -- South America ; South America -- Social conditions

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