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Persuasive Kinship: Human–Plant Relations In Southwest Amazonia, Fabiana Maizza
Persuasive Kinship: Human–Plant Relations In Southwest Amazonia, Fabiana Maizza
Tipití: Journal of the Society for the Anthropology of Lowland South America
Based on my ethnographic research with the Jarawara people, an indigenous society in the Southwest Amazonia, the article explores the idea of thinking kinship as persuasion. Among the Jarawara, children can have more than one father, which is well known in Americanist literature, but there would exist as well an original practice what we could call "multi-maternity". I also observe that the Jarawara can have diverse parental relations - some of their children are human, while others are plants. This occurs in a system of raising (nayana) in which children and plants are raised by a father and/or a mother …
Sex Roles And Social Change In Amazonian Ecuador, William T. Vickers
Sex Roles And Social Change In Amazonian Ecuador, William T. Vickers
Tipití: Journal of the Society for the Anthropology of Lowland South America
No abstract provided.
William Vickers And Gender Studies Of The 1970s, E. Jean Langdon
William Vickers And Gender Studies Of The 1970s, E. Jean Langdon
Tipití: Journal of the Society for the Anthropology of Lowland South America
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Winter Wren By Theresa Kishkan, Vivian M. Hansen
Winter Wren By Theresa Kishkan, Vivian M. Hansen
The Goose
Review of Theresa Kishkan's Winter Wren.