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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
First Published in 1985. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor and Francis, an informa company.
First Published in 1985. What is the place of reason and conversely of the unreasonable, the contradictory, the emotional and the chaotic in social life? What is the nature of general human rationality? Are there such things as incommensurable world views? How efficacious are typologies or 'modes of thought' or cognitive styles? These are some of the controversies addressed by the contributors to this volume which draws together papers from the 1984 Malinowski Centennial Conference of the ASA.
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