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oapen-20.500.12657-302072023-02-01T08:49:17Z The Owners of Kinship Costa, Luiz Anthropology Amazonia Kanamari Kinship Food and Feeding Dependency Commensality Ownership Ethnography Funai Jaguar Juruá River Predation Shamanism The Owners of Kinship investigates how kinship in Indigenous Amazonia is derived from the asymmetrical relation between an “owner” and his or her dependents. Through a comprehensive ethnography of the Kanamari, Luiz Costa shows how this relationship is centered around the bond created between the feeder and the fed. Building on anthropological studies of the acquisition, distribution, and consumption of food and its role in establishing relations of asymmetrical mutuality and kinship, this book breaks theoretical ground for studies in Amazonia and beyond. By investigating how the feeding relation traverses Kanamari society—from the relation between women and the pets they raise, shaman and familiar spirit, mother and child, chiefs and followers, to those between the Brazilian state and the Kanamari—The Owners of Kinship reveals how the mutuality of kinship is determined by the asymmetry of ownership. 2018-04-19 23:55 2020-03-26 03:00:33 2020-04-01T12:48:23Z 2020-04-01T12:48:23Z 2018-01-01 book 648370 OCN: 1038399922 9780997367591 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/30207 eng Malinowski Monographs application/pdf n/a 648370.pdf HAU Books 101688 b74962f8-84f3-4d30-ae61-396a70a5d3b0 b818ba9d-2dd9-4fd7-a364-7f305aef7ee9 9780997367591 Knowledge Unlatched (KU) Chicago, IL USA 101688 KU Select 2017: Front list Collection Knowledge Unlatched open access
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The Owners of Kinship investigates how kinship in Indigenous Amazonia is derived from the asymmetrical relation between an “owner” and his or her dependents. Through a comprehensive ethnography of the Kanamari, Luiz Costa shows how this relationship is centered around the bond created between the feeder and the fed.
Building on anthropological studies of the acquisition, distribution, and consumption of food and its role in establishing relations of asymmetrical mutuality and kinship, this book breaks theoretical ground for studies in Amazonia and beyond. By investigating how the feeding relation traverses Kanamari society—from the relation between women and the pets they raise, shaman and familiar spirit, mother and child, chiefs and followers, to those between the Brazilian state and the Kanamari—The Owners of Kinship reveals how the mutuality of kinship is determined by the asymmetry of ownership.
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