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
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