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What results from these contributions that are so different and varied is that the question of the rulers and property in indigenous Amazonia is still open for discussion. But this is what makes this volume so very interesting. - L'Homme The book under review, a fascinating and valuable volume applying current models from Amazonian anthropology to the classic anthropological theme of property and belonging, explores the articulation in native societies around two concepts: ownership and nurture...The major issues the book deals with are of great interest for material culture studies and cultural rights management...the case studies presented in this volume - carefully contextualized and with meticulous attention to detail - contribute to thinking about the possession of human persons, animals, knowledge, land and things at the crossroads of a wide-reaching comparative spectrum. - Social Anthropology ... a fascinating and valuable volume...offers detailed and sophisticated studies that help us rethink people's relations with respect to things and personhood...The major issues the book deals with are of great interest for material culture studies and cultural rights management... The case studies presented in this volume - carefully contextualised and with meticulous attention to detail - contribute to thinking about the possession of human persons, animals, knowledge, land and things at the crossroads of a wide-reaching comparative spectrum. - Social Analysis This volume has the immense merit of reconfiguring conflicts as what they really are: primarily a negotiation between two cultures, a 'problem of translation' rather than a confrontation between societies without property and a world order that risks, without wanting to, losing the differentiation within the concept for the Amazonian societies. - Journal de la societe des americanistes The chapters of this book constitute valuable studies both for their ethnographic findings and for their theoretical insights. - Anthropos The ethnographies close... culminating a unique and important challenge to conventional conceptions of property and ownership in Western society. They... definitively demonstrate that ownership and property are not foreign to indigenous or 'traditional' societies, that... ownership and property are diverse and culturally constructed notions. These insights are welcome in anthropology and should alter how we think about and research objects and economic practices in 'traditional' and modern societies alike. - Anthropology Review Database Ownership and Nurture makes a stimulating contribution to general anthropological theory and to specific recent debates in lowland South American ethnology. . . I have no doubt it will provoke lively and engaged debate. - Kathleen Lowrey, University of Alberta

The book under review, a fascinating and valuable volume applying current models from Amazonian anthropology to the classic anthropological theme of property and belonging, explores the articulation in native societies around two concepts: ownership and nurture...The major issues the book deals with are of great interest for material culture studies and cultural rights management...the case studies presented in this volume - carefully contextualized and with meticulous attention to detail - contribute to thinking about the possession of human persons, animals, knowledge, land and things at the crossroads of a wide-reaching comparative spectrum. - Social Anthropology The ethnographies close... culminating a unique and important challenge to conventional conceptions of property and ownership in Western society. They... definitively demonstrate that ownership and property are not foreign to indigenous or 'traditional' societies, that... ownership and property are diverse and culturally constructed notions. These insights are welcome in anthropology and should alter how we think about and research objects and economic practices in 'traditional' and modern societies alike. - Anthropology Review Database Ownership and Nurture makes a stimulating contribution to general anthropological theory and to specific recent debates in lowland South American ethnology. . . I have no doubt it will provoke lively and engaged debate. - Kathleen Lowrey, University of Alberta

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

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