Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Figures vii
4. Foreword ix
5. Acknowledgements xiii
6. INTRODUCTION Altering Ownership in Amazonia 1
7. CHAPTER 1 Masters, Slaves and Real People Native Understandings of Ownership and Humanness in Tropical American Capturing Societies 36
8. CHAPTER 2 First Contacts, Slavery and Kinship in North-Eastern Amazonia 63
9. CHAPTER 3 Fabricating Necessity: Feeding and Commensality in Western Amazonia 81
10. CHAPTER 4 Parasitism and Subjection: Modes of Paumari Predation 110
11. CHAPTER 5 How Much for a Song? The Culture of Calculation and the Calculation of Culture 133
12. CHAPTER 6 The Forgotten Pattern and the Stolen Design: Contract, Exchange and Creativity among the Kĩsêdjê 156
13. CHAPTER 7 Doubles and Owners: Relations of Knowledge, Property and Authorship among the Marubo 186
14. CHAPTER 8 Ownership and Well-Being among the Mebêngôkre-Xikrin: Differentiation and Ritual Crisis 209
15. CHAPTER 9 Temporalities of Ownership: Land Possession and Its Transformations among the Tupinambá (Bahia, Brazil) 232
16. Index 257