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Author Brightman, Marc, author.

Title The imbalance of power : leadership, masculinity and wealth in the Amazon / Marc Brightman.

Publication Info. New York : Berghahn, 2016.
©2016

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 187 pages)
Physical Medium polychrome
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Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Intro -- Contents -- Figures, Illustrations and Tables -- Acknowledgements -- A Note on Trio and Wayana Language and Orthography -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 -- Making Trio and Other Peoples -- Chapter 2 -- Houses and In-Laws -- Chapter 3 -- Trade, Money and Influence -- Chapter 4 -- Music and Ritual Capacities -- Chapter 5 -- Owning Persons and Places -- Conclusion: Society Transcends the State -- Glossary -- Appendix: Trio Relationship Terminology -- References -- Index.
Summary AmerIndian societies have an iconic status in classical political thought. For Montaigne, Hobbes, Locke, Hume and Rousseau, the native American 'state of nature' operates as a foil for the European polity. Challenging this tradition, The Imbalance of Power demonstrates ethnographically that the Carib speaking indigenous societies of the Guiana region of Amazonia do not fit conventional characterizations of 'simple' political units with 'egalitarian' political ideologies and 'harmonious' relationships with nature. Marc Brightman builds a persuasive and original theory of AmerIndian politics: far from balanced and egalitarian, Carib societies are rife with tension and difference; but this imbalance conditions social dynamism and a distinctive mode of cohesion. The Imbalance of Power is based on the author's fieldwork in partnership with Vanessa Grotti, who is working on a companion volume entitled Living with the Enemy: First Contacts and the Making of Christian Bodies in Amazonia.
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Subject Trio Indians.
Trio Indians.
Wayana Indians.
Wayana Indians.
Akurio Indians.
Akurio Indians.
Power (Social sciences) -- Guiana.
Power (Social sciences)
Guiana.
Group identity -- Guiana.
Group identity.
Leadership -- Guiana.
Masculinity -- Political aspects -- Guiana.
Guiana -- Ethnic relations.
Leadership.
South America -- Guiana.
Masculinity -- Political aspects.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
Masculinity.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
Ethnic relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Brightman, Marc. Imbalance of power. New York : Berghahn, 2016 9781785333095 (DLC) 2016022366 (OCoLC)957554692
ISBN 9781785333101 (electronic book)
1785333100 (electronic book)
9781785333095
1785333097