The anthropology of love and anger : the aesthetics of conviviality in Native Amazonia / edited by Joanna Overing and Alan Passes.

Date:
2000
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This text questions the very foundations of western sociological thought. It includes case studies from across the South American region, ranging from the fierce Yanomami of Venezuela and Brazil to the Enxet of Paraguay.

Publication/Creation

London ; New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2000.

Physical description

xiv, 305 pages ; 25 cm

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction: Conviviality and the opening up of Amazonian anthropology / Joanna Overing and Alan Passes -- pt. I. Conviviality as a creative process: the aesthetics of the passions and embodiments of community. 1. The first love of a young man: salt and sexual education among the Uitoto Indians of Lowland Colombia / Juan Alvaro Echeverri. 2. Helpless -- the affective preconditions of Piro social life / Peter Gow. 3. The efficacy of laughter: the ludic side of magic within Amazonian sociality / Joanna Overing. 4. Compassion, anger and broken hearts: ontology and the role of language in the Miskitu lament / Mark Jamieson. 5. The value of working and speaking together: a facet of Pa'ikwene (Palikur) conviviality / Alan Passes. 6. Knowledge and the practice of love and hate among the Enxet of Paraguay / Stephen W. Kidd. 7. Anger as a marker of love: the ethic of conviviality among the Yanomami / Catherine Ales.

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    History of Medicine
    BUC.793
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  • 0415224179
  • 9780415224178
  • 0415224187
  • 9780415224185