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Paperback / softback. New. Examines the formation of self among the Urarina, an Amazonian people of lowland Peru. Based on detailed ethnography, this title highlights the role of intimate but asymmetrical attachments and dependencies which begin in the womb, but can extend beyond human society to include a variety of animals, plants, spirits and material objects.
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Under a Watchful Eye: Self, Power, and Intimacy in Amazonia Volume 9 Paperback - 2012
by Harry Walker
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"In this beautifully written study of Urarina mastery of life, Walker demonstrates the continued importance of careful ethnographic attention to historically emergent forms of subjectivity. Walker's perceptive attention to social values and organising principles helps us understand how the Urarina transcend predation, identity and difference. We are transported to the heart of a society both more individualising and more communalist than the ones we have grown up in."--Laura Rival, author of Trekking through History: The Huaorani of Amazonian Ecuador
"A celebration of Urarina understandings of the individual and the social world, Under a Watchful Eye unveils the many paradoxes of native Amazonian sociality. Well-written and finely crafted, the book critically engages with issues raised by perspectivism, incorporation theory, and constructional approaches, proposing novel and stimulating insights on indigenous notions of living well."--Fernando Santos-Granero, author of Vital Enemies: Slavery, Predation, and the Amerindian Political Economy of Life "This book is based on the sensitive and multi-layered ethnography which only real, long-term participant observation can produce. We are convinced by detailed supporting evidence and never lost, as is the case for some Amazonian ethnography, in formulations, which having acquired an academic life of their own, seem impossibly remote from the experience of shared human practice."--Maurice Bloch, author of How We Think They Think: Anthropological Studies in Cognition, Memory and LiteracyDetails
- Title Under a Watchful Eye: Self, Power, and Intimacy in Amazonia Volume 9
- Author Harry Walker
- Binding Paperback
- Pages 252
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher University of California Press, Berkeley
- Date 2012-11-19
- Features Bibliography, Index
- ISBN 9780520273603 / 0520273605
- Weight 0.82 lbs (0.37 kg)
- Dimensions 9 x 6 x 0.57 in (22.86 x 15.24 x 1.45 cm)
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- Interdisciplinary Studies: Aboriginal/Native Studies
- Library of Congress subjects Urarina Indians - Social life and customs, Urarina Indians - Psychology
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2012025913
- Dewey Decimal Code 305.898
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