Marc Brightman is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Bologna.

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Foreword
James Leach

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Introduction: Altering Ownership in Amazonia
Marc Brightman, Carlos Fausto and Vanessa Grotti

Chapter 1. Masters, Slaves, and Real People: Native Understandings of Ownership and Humanness in Tropical American Capturing Societies
Fernando Santos-Granero

Chapter 2. First Contacts, Slavery and Kinship in Northeastern Amazonia
Vanessa Grotti and Marc Brightman
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Chapter 3. Fabricating Necessity: Feeding and Commensality in Western Amazonia
Luiz Costa

Chapter 4. Parasitism and Subjection: Modes of Paumari Predation
Oiara Bonilla

Chapter 5. How Much for a Song? The Culture of Calculation and the Calculation of Culture
Carlos Fausto

Chapter 6. The Forgotten Pattern and the Stolen Design: Contract, Exchange and Creativity Among the Kisêdjê
Marcela Stockler Coelho de Souza

Chapter 7. Doubles and Owners: Relations of Knowledge, Property and Authorship Among the Marubo
Pedro de Niemeyer Cesarino

Chapter 8. Ownership and Wellbeing Among the Mebêngôkre-Xikrin: Differentiation and Ritual Crisis
Cesar Gordon

Chapter 9. Temporalities of Ownership: Land Possession and its Transformations Among the Tupinambá (Bahia, Brazil)
Susana de Matos Viegas

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