Vital Diplomacy: The Ritual Everyday on a Dammed River in Amazonia (Ethnography, Theory, Experiment, 5)

Nahum-Claudel, Chloe

ISBN 10: 1785334069 / ISBN 13: 9781785334061

Published by Berghahn Books, 2017

About this Item

xii, 287 pages, illustrations, maps : 24 cm. Contents: 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.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Vital Diplomacy: The Ritual Everyday on a Dammed River in Amazonia (Ethnography, Theory, Experiment, 5)
• Publisher: Berghahn Books
• Publication Date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1785334069
• ISBN 13: 9781785334061
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New
• Seller catalogs:
  • Anthropology
  • Latin America

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Synopsis

In Brazil, where forest meets savanna, new towns, agribusiness and hydroelectric plants form a patchwork with the indigenous territories. Here, agricultural work, fishing, songs, feasts and exchanges occupy the Enawenę-nawę for eight months of each year during a season called Yankwa. Vital Diplomacy focuses on this major ceremonial cycle to shed new light on classic Amazonian themes such as kinship, gender, manioc cultivation and cuisine, relations with non-humans and foreigners, and the interplay of myth and practice, exploring how ritual contains and diverts the threat of violence by reconciling antagonistic spirits, coordinating social and gender divides, and channelling foreign relations and resources.

About the Author

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.