Download or read book Ownership and Nurture written by Marc Brightman and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2016-05-01 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Animism in Rainforest and Tundra written by Marc Brightman and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2012-08-01 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Amazonia and Siberia, classic regions of shamanism, have long challenged ‘western’ understandings of man’s place in the world. By exploring the social relations between humans and non-human entities credited with human-like personhood (not only animals and plants, but also ‘things’ such as artifacts, trade items, or mineral resources) from a comparative perspective, this volume offers valuable insights into the constitutions of humanity and personhood characteristic of the two areas. The contributors conducted their ethnographic fieldwork among peoples undergoing transformative processes of their lived environments, such as the depletion of natural resources and migration to urban centers. They describe here fundamental relational modes that are being tested in the face of change, presenting groundbreaking research on personhood and agency in shamanic societies and contributing to our global understanding of social and cultural change and continuity.
Download or read book Nurturing the Other written by Vanessa Grotti and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2022-04-01 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Combining archival research, oral history and long-term ethnography, this book studies relations between Amerindians and outsiders, such as American missionaries, through a series of contact expeditions that led to the 'pacification' of three native Amazonian groups in Suriname and French Guiana. The author examines and contrasts Amerindian and non-Amerindian views on this process of social transformation through the lens of the body, notions of peacefulness and kinship, as well as native warfare and shamanism. The book addresses questions of change and continuity, and the little explored links between first contacts, capture and native conversion to Christianity in contemporary indigenous Amazonia.
Download or read book Indigenous Life Projects and Extractivism written by Cecilie Vindal Ødegaard and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-01-01 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exploring indigenous life projects in encounters with extractivism, the present open access volume discusses how current turbulences actualise questions of indigeneity, difference and ontological dynamics in the Andes and Amazonia. While studies of extractivism in South America often focus on wider national and international politics, this contribution instead provides ethnographic explorations of indigenous politics, perspectives and worlds, revealing loss and suffering as well as creative strategies to mediate the extralocal. Seeking to avoid conceptual imperialism or the imposition of exogenous categories, the chapters are grounded in the respective authors’ long-standing field research. The authors examine the reactions (from resistance to accommodation), consequences (from anticipation to rubble) and materials (from fossil fuel to water) diversely related to extractivism in rural and urban settings. How can Amerindian strategies to preserve localised communities in extractivist contexts contribute to ways of thinking otherwise?
Download or read book Authenticity and Authorship in Pacific Island Encounters written by Jeannette Mageo and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2021-04-01 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The insular Pacific is a region saturated with great cultural diversity and poignant memories of colonial and Christian intrusion. Considering authenticity and authorship in the area, this book looks at how these ideas have manifested themselves in Pacific peoples and cultures. Through six rich complementary case studies, a theoretical introduction, and a critical afterword, this volume explores authenticity and authorship as “traveling concepts.” The book reveals diverse and surprising outcomes which shed light on how Pacific identity has changed from the past to the present.
Download or read book Creation and Creativity in Indigenous Lowland South America written by Ernst Halbmayer and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2023-06-09 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Investigating local Indigenous processes of creation and creativity, this book uses ethnographic and comparative anthropological perspectives to enquire about creative transformative practices in lowland South America. The volume shows how people create and reinforce their conditions of being by employing different genres of transgression and by creatively shifting contexts of significance. Local socio-cosmic orders, the interrelation of creative genres (myth, verbal art, song, ritual, and handicrafts), and their changing frames of reference (from communal celebrations to wider political and commercial realms) demonstrate the relational, generative, and processual quality of Amerindian creativity.
Download or read book Animism Beyond the Soul written by Katherine Swancutt and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2018-04-23 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Foreword : the anthropology of ontology meets the writing culture debate. Is reconciliation possible? / Rane Willerslev -- Introduction : anthropological knowledge making, the reflexive feedback loop, and conceptualizations of the soul / Katherine Swancutt And Mireille Mazard -- The algebra of souls : ontological multiplicity and the transformation of animism in southwest china / Mireille Mazard -- Recursivity and the self-reflexive cosmos : tricksters in Cuban and Brazilian spirit mediumship practices / Diana Espãrto Santo -- Spirit of the future : movement, kinetic distribution, and personhood among Siberian Eveny / Olga Ulturgasheva -- The art of capture : hidden jokes and the reinvention of animistic ontologies in Southwest China / Katherine Swancutt -- Narratives of the invisible : autobiography, kinship, and alterity in native Amazonia / Vanessa Elisa Grotti and Marc Brightman -- Technological animism : the uncanny personhood of humanoid machines / Kathleen Richardson -- Postscript : anthropologists and healers and radical empiricists / Edith Turner
Download or read book The Entitlement Trap written by Richard Eyre and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2011-09-06 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dump the allowance-and use a new "Family Economy" to raise responsible children in an age of instant gratification. Number-one New York Times bestselling authors Richard and Linda Eyre, have spent the last twenty-five years helping parents nurture strong, healthy families. Now they've synthesized their vast experience in an essential blueprint to instilling children with a sense of ownership, responsibility, and self-sufficiency. At the heart of their plan is the "Family Economy" complete with a family bank, checkbooks for kids, and a system of initiative-building responsibilities that teaches kids to earn money for the things they want. The motivation carries over to ownership of their own decisions, values, and goals. Anecdotal, time-tested, and gently humorous, The Entitlement Trap challenges some of the sacred cows of parenting and replaces them with values that will save kids (and their parents) from a lifetime of dependence and disabling debt.
Download or read book Family Business Ownership written by C. Aronoff and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-05-24 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ownership in a family business can be a rewarding and important role. It means stewardship, protection and nurturing the family business. As a guide for shareholders, this book will develop understanding and insight into the role of becoming more valuable as an owner, not just financially, but intellectually and emotionally as well.
Download or read book The Owners of Kinship written by Luiz Costa and published by Malinowski Monographs. This book was released on 2017-10-15 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Owners of Kinship investigates how kinship in Indigenous Amazonia is derived from the asymmetrical relation between an "owner" and his or her dependents. Through a comprehensive ethnography of the Kanamari, Luiz Costa shows how this relationship is centered around the bond created between the feeder and the fed. Building on anthropological studies of the acquisition, distribution, and consumption of food and its role in establishing relations of asymmetrical mutuality and kinship, this book breaks theoretical ground for studies in Amazonia and beyond. By investigating how the feeding relation traverses Kanamari society--from the relation between women and the pets they raise, shaman and familiar spirit, mother and child, chiefs and followers, to those between the Brazilian state and the Kanamari--The Owners of Kinship reveals how the mutuality of kinship is determined by the asymmetry of ownership.
Download or read book Jane Grey Swisshelm written by Sylvia D. Hoffert and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2011-01-20 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nineteenth-century newspaper editor Jane Grey Swisshelm (1815-1884) was an unconventionally ambitious woman. While she struggled in private to be a dutiful daughter, wife, and mother, she publicly critiqued and successfully challenged gender conventions that restricted her personal behavior, limited her political and economic opportunities, and attempted to silence her voice. As the owner and editor of newspapers in Pittsburgh; St. Cloud, Minnesota; and Washington, D.C.; and as one of the founders of the Minnesota Republican Party, Swisshelm negotiated a significant place for herself in the male-dominated world of commerce, journalism, and politics. How she accomplished this feat; what expressive devices she used; what social, economic, and political tensions resulted from her efforts; and how those tensions were resolved are the central questions examined in this biography. Sylvia Hoffert arranges the book topically, rather than chronologically, to include Swisshelm in the broader issues of the day, such as women's involvement in politics and religion, their role in the workplace, and marriage. Rescuing this prominent feminist from obscurity, Hoffert shows how Swisshelm laid the groundwork for the "New Woman" of the turn of the century.
Download or read book Your Strength Within written by Tyler J Paske and published by Tyler J Paske. This book was released on with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Welcome, to the process of unleashing your fullest potential in your inner strength within. A lot of the time we can be tapping into more, more opportunities, more energy, more friendships, etc. Your Strength Within will guide you to doing just that, tap into the mastery of the art of achievement. This transformative guide invites you on a life-altering journey through ten powerful chapters, each designed to equip you with the skills and mindset necessary to conquer any challenge and achieve your most audacious goals. Your Strength Within is your roadmap to a life without boundaries. With practical insights and actionable steps, this book empowers you to turn your dreams into reality, unlocking the strength within to master every challenge and create the life you desire. Prepare to embark on a transformative journey toward personal growth, accomplishment, and enduring success.
Download or read book Indonesia Handbook written by Bill Dalton and published by Bill Dalton. This book was released on 1995 with total page 81 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduces the history and culture of the nation's provinces and offers advice on accommodations, transportation, languages, restaurants, and interesting places to visit.
Download or read book Warfare and Shamanism in Amazonia written by Carlos Fausto and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-03-19 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the culture of the Parakanã, a little-known indigenous people of Amazonia, focusing on conflict and ritual.
Download or read book Time and Memory in Indigenous Amazonia written by Carlos Fausto and published by . This book was released on 2013-01-30 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These essays by internationally renowned anthropologists advance the that native Amazonian societies are highly dynamic.
Download or read book Amerindian Socio Cosmologies between the Andes Amazonia and Mesoamerica written by Ernst Halbmayer and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-01-10 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a new anthropological understanding of the socio-cosmological and ontological characteristics of the Isthmo–Colombian Area, beyond established theories for Amazonia, the Andes and Mesoamerica. It focuses on a core region that has been largely neglected by comparative anthropology in recent decades. Centering on relations between Chibchan groups and their neighbors, the contributions consider prevailing socio-cosmological principles and their relationship to Amazonian animism and Mesoamerican and Andean analogism. Classical notions of area homogeneity are reconsidered and the book formulates an overarching proposal for how to make sense of the heterogeneity of the region’s indigenous groups. Drawing on original fieldwork and comparative analysis, the volume provides a valuable anthropological addition to archaeological and linguistic knowledge of the Isthmo・Colombian Area.
Download or read book Money from the Government in Latin America written by Maria Elisa Balen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-11-02 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It has been almost two decades since conditional cash transfer programs first appeared on the agendas of multilateral agencies and politicians. Latin America has often been used as a testing ground for these programs, which consist of transfers of money to subsections of the population upon meeting certain conditions, such as sending their children to school or having them vaccinated. Money from the Government in Latin America takes a comparative view of the effects of this regular transfer of money, which comes with obligations, on rural communities. Drawing on a variety of data, taken from different disciplinary perspectives, these chapters help to build an understanding of the place of conditional cash transfer programsin rural families and households, in individuals’ aspirations and visions, in communities’ relationships to urban areas, and in the overall character of these rural societies. With case studies from Chile, Mexico, Peru, Brazil and Colombia, this book will interest scholars and researchers of Latin American anthropology, sociology, development, economics and politics.
