Chloe Nahum-Claudel

Vital Diplomacy

The Ritual Everyday on a Dammed River in Amazonia

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Focusing on the major ceremonial cycle of the Enawene-nawe people, Vital Diplomacy sheds new light on classic Amazonian themes such as manioc cultivation and cuisine, predatory relations with non-humans, and the interplay of myth and practice, and to consider dynamics of kin, clan, and gender relations, the meaning of productive work, and practices of foreign diplomacy.

Produktdetails

• Ethnography, Theory, Experiment
• Verlag: Berghahn Books
• Seitenzahl: 302
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Oktober 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 438g
• ISBN-13: 9781805391258
• ISBN-10: 1805391259
• Artikelnr.: 68069151

Autorenporträt

Chloe Nahum-Claudel is a lecturer in Social Anthropology at the University of Manchester. She previously held research fellowships at the London School of Economics, the University of Cambridge, and the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
A Note on Language
Map
Introduction
Chapter 1. Mastery and Subjection at the Fishing Dams
Chapter 2. The Fishermen Return 'like Yakairiti'
Chapter 3. Routine Ritualism and a Festival of Abundance
Chapter 4. Affinal Diplomacy in a United, Egalitarian Society
Chapter 5. Cosmic Diplomacy: Cooking, Curing and Crafting Human Life
Chapter 6. Yankwa's Foreign Diplomacy and Saluma's Defiance
Bibliography
Index