The imbalance of power : leadership, masculinity and wealth in the Amazon

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The imbalance of power : leadership, masculinity and wealth in the Amazon

Title remainder

leadership, masculinity and wealth in the Amazon

Statement of responsibility

Marc Brightman

Creator

• Brightman, Marc

Author

• Brightman, Marc

Subject

• Asymmetrie
• Electronic books
• Ethnic relations
• Gesellschaftsordnung
• Group identity
• Group identity -- Guiana
• Guiana -- Ethnic relations
• Leadership
• Leadership -- Guiana
• Masculinity -- Political aspects
• Masculinity -- Political aspects -- Guiana
• Politische Anthropologie
• Power (Social sciences)
• Power (Social sciences) -- Guiana
• Akurio Indians
• SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations
• SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies
• South America -- Guiana
• Sozialanthropologie
• Soziale Ungleichheit
• Surinam
• Trio
• Trio Indians
• Trio Indians
• Verwandtschaft
• Wayana Indians
• Wayana Indians
• Wáyana
• SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology | Cultural
• Akurio Indians

Genre

• Electronic books

Language

eng

Summary

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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N$T

Illustrations

• illustrations
• maps

Index

index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

• dictionaries
• bibliography