Space And Society In Central Brazil

Author : Elizabeth Ewart
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2020-05-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000184891

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Hailed once as ‘giants of the Amazon’, Panará people emerged onto a world stage in the early 1970s. What followed is a remarkable story of socio-demographic collapse, loss of territory, and subsequent recovery. Reduced to just 79 survivors in 1976, Panará people have gone on to recover and reclaim a part of their original lands in an extraordinary process of cultural and social revival. Space and Society in Central Brazil is a unique ethnographic account, in which analytical approaches to social organisation are brought into dialogue with Panará social categories and values as told in their own terms. Exploring concepts such as space, material goods, and ideas about enemies, this book examines how social categories transform in time and reveals the ways in which Panará people themselves produce their identities in constant dialogue with the forms of alterity that surround them. Clearly and accessibly written, this book will appeal to students, scholars and anyone interested in the complex lives and histories of indigenous Amazonian societies.

Author : Elizabeth Ewart
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2020-05-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000181715

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Space and Society in Central Brazil by Elizabeth Ewart Pdf

Hailed once as ‘giants of the Amazon’, Panará people emerged onto a world stage in the early 1970s. What followed is a remarkable story of socio-demographic collapse, loss of territory, and subsequent recovery. Reduced to just 79 survivors in 1976, Panará people have gone on to recover and reclaim a part of their original lands in an extraordinary process of cultural and social revival. Space and Society in Central Brazil is a unique ethnographic account, in which analytical approaches to social organisation are brought into dialogue with Panará social categories and values as told in their own terms. Exploring concepts such as space, material goods, and ideas about enemies, this book examines how social categories transform in time and reveals the ways in which Panará people themselves produce their identities in constant dialogue with the forms of alterity that surround them. Clearly and accessibly written, this book will appeal to students, scholars and anyone interested in the complex lives and histories of indigenous Amazonian societies.

Author : Anthony Seeger
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2013-10-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0674433025

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Nature and Society in Central Brazil by Anthony Seeger Pdf

Author : Michael Scott
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107009158

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Space and Society in the Greek and Roman Worlds by Michael Scott Pdf

An interdisciplinary study of the dynamic relationship between space and society through case studies across the ancient Greek and Roman worlds.

Author : Laura Zanotti
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2016-11-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780816533541

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Radical Territories in the Brazilian Amazon by Laura Zanotti Pdf

Radical Territories in the Brazilian Amazon sheds light on the creative and groundbreaking efforts Kayapó peoples deploy to protect their lands and livelihoods in Brazil. Laura Zanotti shows how Kayapó communities are using diverse pathways to make a sustainable future for their peoples and lands. The author advances anthropological approaches to understanding how indigenous groups cultivate self-determination strategies in conflict-ridden landscapes.

Author : Anthony Seeger
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015001980930

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Nature and Society in Central Brazil by Anthony Seeger Pdf

Author : Theresa L. Miller
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2019-05-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781477317426

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Plant Kin by Theresa L. Miller Pdf

The Indigenous Canela inhabit a vibrant multispecies community of nearly 3,000 people and over 300 types of cultivated and wild plants living together in Maranhão State in the Brazilian Cerrado (savannah) a biome threatened with deforestation and climate change. In the face of these environmental threats, Canela women and men work to maintain riverbank and forest gardens and care for their growing crops who they consider to be, literally, children. This nurturing, loving relationship between people and plants—which offers a thought-provoking model for supporting multispecies survival and well-being throughout the world—is the focus of Plant Kin. Theresa L. Miller shows how kinship develops between Canela people and plants through intimate, multi-sensory, and embodied relationships. Using an approach she calls “sensory ethnobotany,” Miller explores the Canela bio-sociocultural life-world, including Canela landscape aesthetics, ethnobotanical classification, mythical storytelling, historical and modern-day gardening practices, transmission of ecological knowledge through an education of affection for plant kin, shamanic engagements with plant friends and lovers, and myriad other human-nonhuman experiences. This multispecies ethnography reveals the transformations of Canela human-environment and human-plant engagements over the past two centuries and envisions possible futures for this Indigenous multispecies community as they reckon with the rapid environmental and climatic changes facing the Brazilian Cerrado as the Anthropocene epoch unfolds.

Author : Andrew Russell,Elizabeth Rahman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2020-06-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000183115

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The Master Plant by Andrew Russell,Elizabeth Rahman Pdf

Described as a ‘master plant’ by many indigenous groups in lowland South America, tobacco is an essential part of shamanic ritual, as well as a source of everyday health, wellbeing and community. In sharp contrast to the condemnation of the tobacco industry and its place in contemporary public health discourse, the book considers tobacco in a more nuanced light, as an agent both of enlightenment and destruction.Exploring the role of tobacco in the lives of indigenous peoples, The Master Plant offers an important and unique contribution to this field of study through its focus on lowland South America: the historical source region of this controversial plant, yet rarely discussed in recent scholarship. The ten chapters in this collection bring together ethnographic accounts, key developments in anthropological theory and emergent public health responses to indigenous tobacco use. Moving from a historical study of tobacco usage – covering the initial domestication of wild varieties and its value as a commodity in colonial times – to an examination of the transcendent properties of tobacco, and the magic, symbolism and healing properties associated with it, the authors present wide-ranging perspectives on the history and cultural significance of this important plant. The final part of the book examines the changing landscape of tobacco use in these communities today, set against the backdrop of the increasing power of the national and transnational tobacco industry.The first critical overview of tobacco and its uses across lowland South America, this book encourages new ways of thinking about the problems of commercially exploited tobacco both within and beyond this source region.

Author : Amy Penfield
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2023-04-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781477327104

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Predatory Economies by Amy Penfield Pdf

A study of the modes of predation used by and against the Sanema people of Venezuela. Predation is central to the cosmology and lifeways of the Sanema-speaking Indigenous people of Venezuelan Amazonia, but it also marks their experience of modernity under the socialist “Bolivarian” regime and its immense oil wealth. Yet predation is not simply violence and plunder. For Sanema people, it means a great deal more: enticement, seduction, persuasion. It suggests an imminent threat but also opportunity and even sanctuary. Amy Penfield spent two and a half years in the field, living with and learning from Sanema communities. She discovered that while predation is what we think it is—invading enemies, incursions by gold miners, and unscrupulous state interventions—Sanema are not merely prey. Predation, or appropriation without reciprocity, is essential to their own activities. They use predatory techniques of trickery in hunting and shamanism activities, while at the same time, they employ tactics of manipulation to obtain resources from neighbors and from the state. A richly detailed ethnography, Predatory Economies looks beyond well-worn tropes of activism and resistance to tell a new story of agency from an Indigenous perspective.

Author : Paul Dresch,Judith Scheele
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2015-11-12
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780191068324

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Legalism by Paul Dresch,Judith Scheele Pdf

Mainstream historians in recent decades have often treated formal categories and rules as something to be 'used' by individuals, as one might use a stick or stone, and the gains of an earlier legal history are often needlessly set aside. Anthropologists, meanwhile, have treated rules as analytic errors and categories as an imposition by outside powers or by analysts, leaving a very thin notion of 'practice' as the stuff of social life. Philosophy of an older vintage, as well as the work of scholars such as Charles Taylor, provides fresh approaches when applied imaginatively to cases beyond the traditional ground of modern Europe and North America. Not only are different kinds of rules and categories open to examination, but the very notion of a rule can be explored more deeply. This volume approaches rules and categories as constitutive of action and hence of social life, but also as providing means of criticism and imagination. A general theoretical framework is derived from analytical philosophy, from Wittgenstein to his critics and beyond, and from recent legal thinkers such as Schauer and Waldron. Case-studies are presented from a broad range of periods and regions, from Amazonia via northern Chad, Tibet, and medieval Russia to the scholarly worlds of Roman law, Islam, and Classical India. As the third volume in the Legalism series, this collection draws on common themes that run throughout the first two volumes: Legalism: Anthropology and History and Legalism: Community and Justice, consolidating them in a framework that suggests a new approach to rule-bound systems.

Author : Jeremy M. Campbell
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2015-12-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780295806198

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Conjuring Property by Jeremy M. Campbell Pdf

Winner of the 2017 James M. Blaut Award from the Cultural and Political Ecology Specialty Group of the Association of American GeographersHonorable Mention for the 2016 Book Prize from the Association for Political and Legal Anthropology Since the 1960s, when Brazil first encouraged large-scale Amazonian colonization, violence and confusion have often accompanied national policies concerning land reform, corporate colonization, indigenous land rights, environmental protection, and private homesteading. Conjuring Property shows how, in a region that many perceive to be stateless, colonists - from highly capitalized ranchers to landless workers - adopt anticipatory stances while they await future governance intervention regarding land tenure. For Amazonian colonists, property is a dynamic category that becomes salient in the making: it is conjured through papers, appeals to state officials, and the manipulation of landscapes and memories of occupation. This timely study will be of interest to development studies scholars and practitioners, conservation ecologists, geographers, and anthropologists.

Author : Marcelo González Gálvez,Piergiorgio Di Giminiani,Giovanna Bacchiddu
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2022-05-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781800733312

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Theorizing Relations in Indigenous South America by Marcelo González Gálvez,Piergiorgio Di Giminiani,Giovanna Bacchiddu Pdf

Whether invented, discovered, implicit, or directly addressed, relations remain the main focus of most anthropological inquiries. These relations, once conceptualized in ethnographic fieldwork as self-evident connections between discrete social units, have been increasingly explored through local ontological theories. This collected volume explores how ethnographies of indigenous South America have helped to inspire this analytic shift, demonstrating the continued importance of ethnographic diversity. Most importantly, this volume asserts that comparative ethnographic research can help illustrate complex questions surrounding relations vis-à-vis the homogenizing effects of modern coloniality.

Author : Fernando Santos-Granero
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2015-11-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9780816531899

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Images of Public Wealth Or the Anatomy of Well-Being in Indigenous Amazonia by Fernando Santos-Granero Pdf

Reflecting a global interest in the topics of well-being, happiness, and the good life, this book explores local notions of public wealth in indigenous Amazonia. The contributors place particular importance in how indigenous views of wealth are linked to the creation of strong, productive, and moral individuals and collectivities, providing thought-provoking new approaches to understanding wealth in non-capitalist, kin-based societies.

Author : Casey High
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2015-03-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780252097027

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Victims and Warriors by Casey High Pdf

"Casey High weaves together memories, facts and fantasies as these occur in contemporary Ecuadorian Amazonia, offering us a fascinating picture of Waorani life today. This highly original book takes us a step further in the understanding of current sociocultural transformations among Amazonian indigenous peoples." --Carlos Fausto, National Museum, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro

Author : Kees Biekart,Tiina Kontinen,Marianne Millstein
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2023-05-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783031233050

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Civil Society Responses to Changing Civic Spaces by Kees Biekart,Tiina Kontinen,Marianne Millstein Pdf

This open access book contributes to thriving debates in academic as well as professional circles about the role of civil society in shrinking civic spaces, rising authoritarianism and right-wing populism, conflicts, fragile states, and most lately, the global COVID-19 pandemic. This is one of the first books to address the implications of changing civic spaces for civil society organizations worldwide. It offers a unique overview of how social movements and civil society groups in very different settings are responding to state-imposed restrictions of basic civic freedoms. The authors are all experts in the field, and their analyses are based on original and onsite research. This unique book also contributes to a better understanding of the conceptualizations and practices of civil society. It is of keen interest to academic scholars, students, civil society practitioners, and policy makers in the field of international development research and civil society action.