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The Anthropology of Love and Anger - The Aesthetics of Conviviality in Native Amazonia (Hardcover)
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The Anthropology of Love and Anger - The Aesthetics of Conviviality in Native Amazonia (Hardcover)
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Can we judge Amerindian social behaviour by our own standards? To
what extent is social success based on love and anger in the Amazon
region? "The Anthropology of Love and Anger" provides evidence that
Anthropology is a thriving subject. In this discussion the editors
have brought together papers that question the very foundations of
western sociological thought. In their examination of the "social
structure", or rather "sociality" (the former expression being
inapplicable in this context) of indigenous peoples from across the
South American continent, the contributors have come to realize
that western thought does not possess the vocabulary to define the
very fundamentals of indigenous thought and practice. The dualisms
of public and private, political and domestic, individual and
collective, even male and female, in which western Anthropology was
founded cannot legitimately be applied to peoples whose "sociality"
is based on an "aesthetics of community". For indigenous peoples
success is measured by the extent to which conviviality, (all that
is peaceful, harmonious and sociable) has been attained. Yet it is
not just a conviviality or "sociality" which relies on love and
good but
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