Anthropology of Love and Anger The Aesthetics of Conviviality in Native Amazonia

Name: Anthropology of Love and Anger The Aesthetics of Conviviality in Native Amazonia
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ISBN: 9780415224185

ISBN-10: 0415224187

ISBN-13: 9780415224185

Edition: 2000

Authors: Joanna Overing, Alan Passes

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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.

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List price: $59.95
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 11/30/2000
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 320
Size: 6.26" wide x 9.25" long x 0.71" tall
Weight: 1.188
Language: English



Introduction: Conviviality and the opening up of Amazonian anthropology



The first love of a young man: salt and sexual education among the Uitoto Indians of Lowland Columbia




Helpless: the affective preconditions of Piro social life




The efficacy of laughter: the Iudic side of magic within Amazonian sociality




Compassion, anger and broken hearts: ontology and the role of language in the Miskitu lament




The value of working and speaking together: a facet of Pa'ikwene (Palikur) conviviality




Knowledge and the practice of love and hate among the Enxet of Paraguay




Anger as a marker of love: the ethic of conviviality among the Yanomami




Homesickness and the Cashinahua self: a reflection of the embodied condition of relatedness




'Though it comes as evil, I embrace it as good': social sensibilities and the transformation of malignant agency among the Muinane




Pretty vacant: Columbus, conviviality, and New World faces




The convivial self and the fear of anger amongst the Airo-Pai of Amazonian Peru




The delicacy of community: on kisagantsi in Matsigenka narrative discourse




A woman between two men and a man between two women: the production of jealousy and the predation of sociality amongst the Paresi Indians of Mato Grosso (Brazil)




'The more we are together '




The Sisyphus syndrome, or the struggle for conviviality in native Amazonia