The Anthropology of Love and Anger (eBook, PDF)

The Aesthetics of Conviviality in Native Amazonia
Redaktion: Overing, Joanna; Passes, Alan

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Produktbeschreibung

This unique work, draws on a close analysis of the egalitarian communal way some Amazonian peoples live to show how they produce and maintain a deeply cherished, tranquil and intimate life. The contributors reveal that (western) representations of these cultures are more often than not misleading or incorrect, labeling these peoples as primitive, "warlike" and fierce when in fact their lives are based on love and conviviality.With case studies from across the South American region, ranging from the Yanomami of Venezuela and Brazil to the Enxet of Paraguay, and discussions on a vast array of topics from the effects of laughter, the role of language, and homesickness, The Anthropology of Love and Anger will be fascinating reading for all those with an interest in post-colonial studies and anthropology.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Januar 2002
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134592319
• Artikelnr.: 42641636

Autorenporträt

Joanna Overing is Professor and Chair of the Social Anthropology Department, University of St. Andrews and Director for the Centre for indigenous American Studies at St. Andrews. Alan Passes is a novelist, screenwriter and anthropologist.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Conviviality and the opening up of Amazonian anthropology 1.
The first love of a young man: salt and sexual education among the Uitoto
Indians of Lowland Columbia juan Alvaro Echeverri 2. Helpless: the
affective preconditions of Piro social life Peter Gow 3. The efficacy of
laughter: the Iudic 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 Kidd 7. Anger as a marker of love: the ethic of conviviality among
the Yanomami Catherine Ales 8. Homesickness and the Cashinahua self: a
reflection of the embodied condition of relatedness Elsje Lagrou 9. 'Though
it comes as evil, I embrace it as good': social sensibilities and the
transformation of malignant agency among the Muinane Carlos David
Londono-Sulkin 10. Pretty vacant: Columbus, conviviality, and New World
faces Peter Mason 11. The convivial self and the fear of anger amongst the
Airo-Pai of Amazonian Peru Luisa Elvira Belaunde 12. The delicacy of
community: on kisagantsi in Matsigenka narrative discourse Dan Rosengren
13. 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) Marco Antonio Goncalves 14. 'The more we are together '
Peter Riviere 15. The Sisyphus syndrome, or the struggle for conviviality
in native Amazonia Fernando Santos-Granero