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This open access book applies insights from the anthropology of
hospitality to illuminate ethnographic accounts of migrant
reception in various parts of the Mediterranean. The contributors
ground the idea and practice of hospitality in concrete
ethnographic settings and challenge how the casual usage of
Derridean or Kantian notions of hospitality can blur the boundaries
between social scales and between metaphor and practice. Host-guest
relations are multiplied through pregnancy and childbirth, and new
forms of hospitality emerge with the need to offer mortuary
practices for dead strangers, helping to illuminate the spatial and
scalar dimensions of morality and politics in Mediterranean migrant
reception.
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.
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.
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.
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