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      Nurturing the Other: First Contacts and the Making of Christian Bodies in Amazonia

      Vanessa Grotti

      Combining archival research, oral history and long-term ethnography, this book studies relations between Amerindians and outsiders such as American missionaries through a series of contact expeditions that led to the…

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      Migrant Hospitalities in the Mediterranean: Encounters with Alterity in Birth and Death

      This open access book applies insights from the anthropology of hospitality to illuminate ethnographic accounts of migrant reception in various parts of the Mediterranean.

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      Ownership and Nurture: Studies in Native Amazonian Property Relations

      Through ethnography of the Amazonia region, Ownership and Nurture sets new and challenging terms for debates about the classic anthropological theme of property. This volume demonstrates that property relations are…

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      Ownership and Nurture: Studies in Native Amazonian Property Relations

      Through ethnography of the Amazonia region, Ownership and Nurture sets new and challenging terms for debates about the classic anthropological theme of property. This volume demonstrates that property relations are…

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      Animism in Rainforest and Tundra: Personhood, Animals, Plants and Things in Contemporary Amazonia and Siberia

      This volume offers valuable insights into the constitutions of humanity and personhood characteristic of Siberia and Amazonia. The contributors conducted their ethnographic fieldwork among peoples undergoing transformative processes of their…

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      Animism in Rainforest and Tundra: Personhood, Animals, Plants and Things in Contemporary Amazonia and Siberia

      The contributors conducted their ethnographic fieldwork among peoples undergoing transformative processes of their lived environments, such as the depletion of natural resources and migration to urban centers. They describe here…

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