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    The Imbalance of Power : Leadership, Masculinity and Wealth in the Amazon (2016)
    New York, NY : [s.n.]
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    ISBN: 9781785333101
    Language: Undetermined
    Pages: 206 p.
    Edition: 1st edition
    Keywords: General Anthropology
    Abstract: Amerindian societies have an iconic status in classical political thought. For Montaigne, Hobbes, Locke, Hume and Rousseau, the native American 'state of nature' operates as a foil for the European polity. Challenging this tradition, The Imbalance of Power demonstrates ethnographically that the Carib speaking indigenous societies of the Guiana region of Amazonia do not fit conventional characterizations of 'simple' political units with 'egalitarian' political ideologies and 'harmonious' relationships with nature. Marc Brightman builds a persuasive and original theory of Amerindian politics: far from balanced and egalitarian, Carib societies are rife with tension and difference; but this imbalance conditions social dynamism and a distinctive mode of cohesion. The Imbalance of Power is based on the author's fieldwork in partnership with Vanessa Grotti, who is working on a companion volume entitled Living with the Enemy: First Contacts and the Making of Christian Bodies in Amazonia.
    Description / Table of Contents: Preface -- Acknowledgements -- A note on Trio and Wayana orthography -- List of acronyms and abbreviations -- Maps -- Introduction -- -- Guianan Leadership -- Guiana -- The Trio, Wayana and Akuriyo -- Fieldwork and its Limitations -- Structure and Scope of the Book -- -- Chapter 1. Making Trio and Other Peoples -- -- Ethnogenesis -- A Theory of Continuity -- Substance and Filiation -- Telling Stories, Making Groups -- Time, History and Identity -- 'The Trio' as a Group -- Ethnogenesis and Alterity -- Missionisation and Ethnicity: The Contact of the Akuriyo -- Slavery and Identity -- Marriage and Manioc -- Strategic Ethnicity -- Leadership Inside and Out -- -- Chapter 2. Houses and In-Laws -- -- Leadership, Inequality and the House -- Houses and Housebuilders -- The House as Artefact -- The Collective House -- Scale and the Household -- Consanguinity, Affinity and the 'Atom of Politics' -- Symmetry and Asymmetry -- Leadership and the House as Idea -- -- Chapter 3. Trade, Money and Influence -- -- Economic Influence -- Exchange and Trade -- Trading with Maroons -- Money -- The Politics of Air Travel -- Airborne Evangelism -- The City, Prestige and Mobility -- Air Entrepreneurship -- Public Speaking -- Literacy -- Metaphysical Communication -- Bible Economy -- Leadership and Influence Beyond Consanguinity -- -- Chapter 4. Music and Ritual Capacities -- -- Structured Sound -- Tortoiseshell Pipes: Individual and Collective -- Rattles and Shamanism: Percussion and Harmony -- Capacity, Blowing and Song -- The Music of the Other -- Speech as Music -- Ceremonial Dialogue -- Music and Leadership -- Heterophony -- Music and Difference -- -- Chapter 5. Owning Places and Persons -- -- The Language of Possession -- Moveable Wealth -- The Value of Land -- Names and Places -- Gender Asymmetry and Women as Property -- Ownership, Wealth and Influence -- -- Conclusion: Society Transcends the State -- Glossary -- Appendix: Trio Relationship Terminology -- References --
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    Ownership and Nurture : Studies in Native Amazonian Property Relations (2016)
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    ISBN: 9781785330841
    Language: Undetermined
    Pages: 284 p.
    Edition: 1st edition
    Keywords: General Anthropology
    Abstract: 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.
    Description / Table of Contents: List of Figures -- Foreword -- James Leach -- Acknowledgements -- Map -- Introduction: Altering Ownership in Amazonia -- Marc Brightman, Carlos Fausto and Vanessa Grotti -- Chapter 1. Masters, Slaves, and Real People: Native Understandings of Ownership and Humanness in Tropical American Capturing Societies -- Fernando Santos-Granero -- Chapter 2. First Contacts, Slavery and Kinship in Northeastern Amazonia -- Vanessa Grotti and Marc Brightman -- This chapter is open access under a Creative Commons Attribution International License (CC BY) -- Chapter 3. Fabricating Necessity: Feeding and Commensality in Western Amazonia -- Luiz Costa -- Chapter 4. Parasitism and Subjection: Modes of Paumari Predation -- Oiara Bonilla -- Chapter 5. How Much for a Song? The Culture of Calculation and the Calculation of Culture -- Carlos Fausto -- Chapter 6. The Forgotten Pattern and the Stolen Design: Contract, Exchange and Creativity Among the Kĩsêdjê -- Marcela Stockler Coelho de Souza -- Chapter 7. Doubles and Owners: Relations of Knowledge, Property and Authorship Among the Marubo -- Pedro de Niemeyer Cesarino -- Chapter 8. Ownership and Wellbeing Among the Mebêngôkre-Xikrin: Differentiation and Ritual Crisis -- Cesar Gordon -- Chapter 9. Temporalities of Ownership: Land Possession and its Transformations Among the Tupinambá (Bahia, Brazil) -- Susana de Matos Viegas -- Index --
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    Oikos and Market : Explorations in Self-Sufficiency after Socialism (2015)
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    ISBN: 9781782386964
    Language: Undetermined
    Pages: 204 p.
    Edition: 1st edition
    Series Statement: Max Planck Studies in Anthropology and Economy 2
    Keywords: General Anthropology
    Abstract: Self-sufficiency of the house is practiced in many parts of the world but ignored in economic theory, just as socialist collectivization is assumed to have brought household self-sufficiency to an end. The ideals of self-sufficiency, however, continue to shape economic activity in a wide range of postsocialist settings. This volume's six comparative studies of postsocialist villages in Eastern Europe and Asia illuminate the enduring importance of the house economy, which is based not on the market but on the order of the house. These formations show that economies depend not only on the macro institutions of markets and states but also on the micro institutions of families, communities, and house economies, often in an uneasy relationship.
    Description / Table of Contents: List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Self-Sufficiency as Reality and as Myth -- Stephen Gudeman and Chris Hann -- Chapter 1. The Ideal of Self-Sufficiency and the Reality of Dependence: A Hungarian Case -- Bea Vidacs -- Chapter 2. How Much is Enough? Household Provisioning, Self-Sufficiency and Social Status in Rural Moldova -- Jennifer R. Cash -- Chapter 3. When the Household Meets the State: Ajvar Cooking and Householding in Postsocialist Macedonia -- Miladina Monova -- Chapter 4. Self-Sufficiency is Not Enough: Ritual Intensification and Household Economies in a Kyrgyz Village -- Nathan Light -- Chapter 5. "They Work in a Closed Circle": Self-Sufficiency in House-Based Rural Tourism in the Rhodope Mountains, Bulgaria -- Detelina Tocheva -- Chapter 6. Self-Sufficiency and "Being One's Own Master" among Transylvanian Forest Dwellers -- Monica Vasile -- Notes on Contributors -- Index --
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    Economy and Ritual : Studies of Postsocialist Transformations (2015)
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    ISBN: 9781782385707
    Language: Undetermined
    Pages: 214 p.
    Edition: 1st edition
    Series Statement: Max Planck Studies in Anthropology and Economy 1
    Keywords: General Anthropology
    Abstract: According to accepted wisdom, rational practices and ritual action are opposed. Rituals drain wealth from capital investment and draw on a mode of thought different from practical ideas. The studies in this volume contest this view. Comparative, historical, and contemporary, the six ethnographies extend from Macedonia to Kyrgyzstan. Each one illuminates the economic and ritual changes in an area as it emerged from socialism and (re-)entered market society. Cutting against the idea that economy only means markets and that market action exhausts the meaning of economy, the studies show that much of what is critical for a people's economic life takes place outside markets and hinges on ritual, understood as the negation of the everyday world of economising.
    Description / Table of Contents: List of Illustrations -- Introduction: Ritual, Economy and the Institutions of the Base -- Stephen Gudeman and Chris Hann -- Chapter 1. Economy as Ritual: The Problems of Paying in Wine -- Jennifer Cash -- Chapter 2. Animals in the Kyrgyz Ritual Economy: Symbolic and Moral Dimensions of Economic Embedding -- Nathan Light -- Chapter 3. From Pig-Sticking to Festival: Changes in Pig-Sticking Practices in the Hungarian Countryside -- Bea Vidacs -- Chapter 4. Kurban: Shifting Economy and the Transformations of a Ritual -- Detelina Tocheva -- Chapter 5. The Trader's Wedding: Ritual Inflation and Money Gifts in Transylvania -- Monica Vasile -- Chapter 6. "We don't have work. We just grow a little tobacco": Household Economy and Ritual Effervescence in a Macedonian Town -- Miladina Monova -- Appendix: The "Economy and Ritual" Project and the Field Questionnaire -- Notes on Contributors -- Index --
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    The gift and reciprocity : perspectives from economic anthropology (2006)
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    In:  Handbook of the economics of giving, altruism and reciprocity ; Vol. 1: Foundations (2006), Seite 207-223 | year:2006 | pages:207-223
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    ISBN: 0444506977
    Language: English
    Titel der Quelle: Handbook of the economics of giving, altruism and reciprocity ; Vol. 1: Foundations
    Publ. der Quelle: Amsterdam [u.a.] : North-Holland, 2006
    Angaben zur Quelle: (2006), Seite 207-223
    Angaben zur Quelle: year:2006
    Angaben zur Quelle: pages:207-223
    Keywords: Anthropologie ; Geschenk ; Wirtschaftswissenschaft ; Aufsatz im Buch
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