The Imbalance of Power: Leadership, Masculinity and Wealth in the Amazon - Couverture souple

Brightman, Marc

 
9781789208429: The Imbalance of Power: Leadership, Masculinity and Wealth in the Amazon
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 1789208424 ISBN 13 : 9781789208429
Editeur : Berghahn Books, 2020

Synopsis

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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À propos de l?auteur

Marc Brightman is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Bologna. He has published on a variety of topics including ownership, indigenous movements, animism and forest governance.

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Éditeur
Berghahn Books
Date d'édition
2020
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1789208424
ISBN 13 
9781789208429
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
206
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