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The Imbalance of Power

Leadership, Masculinity and Wealth in the Amazon

Marc Brightman (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

206 Seiten

2020
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
978-1-78920-842-9 (ISBN)

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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.

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.

Preface

Acknowledgements

A note on Trio and Wayana orthography

List of acronyms and abbreviations

Maps

Introduction

Guianan Leadership

Guiana

The Trio, Wayana and Akuriyo

Fieldwork and its Limitations

Structure and Scope of the Book

Chapter 1. Making Trio and Other Peoples

Ethnogenesis

A Theory of Continuity

Substance and Filiation

Telling Stories, Making Groups

Time, History and Identity

‘The Trio’ as a Group

Ethnogenesis and Alterity

Missionisation and Ethnicity: The Contact of the Akuriyo

Slavery and Identity

Marriage and Manioc

Strategic Ethnicity

Leadership Inside and Out

Chapter 2. Houses and In-Laws

Leadership, Inequality and the House

Houses and Housebuilders

The House as Artefact

The Collective House

Scale and the Household

Consanguinity, Affinity and the ‘Atom of Politics’

Symmetry and Asymmetry

Leadership and the House as Idea

Chapter 3. Trade, Money and Influence

Economic Influence

Exchange and Trade

Trading with Maroons

Money

The Politics of Air Travel

Airborne Evangelism

The City, Prestige and Mobility

Air Entrepreneurship

Public Speaking

Literacy

Metaphysical Communication

Bible Economy

Leadership and Influence Beyond Consanguinity

Chapter 4. Music and Ritual Capacities

Structured Sound

Tortoiseshell Pipes: Individual and Collective

Rattles and Shamanism: Percussion and Harmony

Capacity, Blowing and Song

The Music of the Other

Speech as Music

Ceremonial Dialogue

Music and Leadership

Heterophony

Music and Difference

Chapter 5. Owning Places and Persons

The Language of Possession

Moveable Wealth

The Value of Land

Names and Places

Gender Asymmetry and Women as Property

Ownership, Wealth and Influence

Conclusion: Society Transcends the State

Glossary

Appendix: Trio Relationship Terminology

References

Erscheinungsdatum	03.01.2020
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Weitere Religionen
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-78920-842-4 / 1789208424
ISBN-13	978-1-78920-842-9 / 9781789208429
Zustand	Neuware