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The first book to address the classic anthropological theme of property through the ethnography of Amazonia, Ownership and Nurture sets new and challenging terms for anthropological debates about the region and about property in general. Property and ownership have special significance and carry specific meanings in Amazonia, which has been portrayed as the antithesis of Western, property-based, civilization. Through carefully constructed studies of land ownership, slavery, shamanism, spirit mastery, aesthetics, and intellectual property, this volume demonstrates that property relations are of central importance in Amazonia, and that the ownership of persons plays an especially significant role in native cosmology.

Indians of South America --- Material culture --- Land tenure --- Agrarian tenure --- Feudal tenure --- Freehold --- Land ownership --- Land question --- Landownership --- Tenure of land --- Land use, Rural --- Real property --- Land, Nationalization of --- Landowners --- Serfdom --- Culture --- Folklore --- Technology --- American aborigines --- American Indians --- Indigenous peoples --- Ethnology --- aesthetics. --- amazonia. --- antithesis of western property based civilization. --- carefully constructed. --- classic anthropological theme of property. --- detailed. --- ethnography of amazonia. --- intellectual property. --- land ownership. --- native cosmology. --- ownership of persons. --- property and ownership. --- property relations are central importance. --- shamanism. --- slavery. --- spirit mastery.