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Under a watchful eye : self, power, and intimacy in Amazonia / Harry Walker

Author
Walker, Harry, 1977-
Published
Berkeley : University of California Press, [2012]
Copyright Date
©2012
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English.
Contents
Cover; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Prologue: Learning to Stand-Leaned-Together; 1. Spaces of Refuge; 2. Vital Shields; 3. Conceiving the Conjugal Body; 4. Mutuality and Autonomy; 5. Authority and Solidarity; 6. Mastering Subjection; Epilogue: An Accompanied Life; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; V; W.
Summary
What does it mean to be accompanied? How can autonomy and a sense of self emerge through one's involvement with others? This book examines the formation of self among the Urarina, an Amazonian people of lowland Peru. Based on detailed ethnography, the analysis 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. It thereby raises fundamental questions about what it means to be alive, to be an experiencing subject, and to be human. From the.
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ISBN
9780520954212 (electronic bk.)
0520954211 (electronic bk.)
9780520273597 (cloth ; alk. paper)
0520273591 (cloth ; alk. paper)
9780520273603 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
0520273605 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
1283611082
9781283611084
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Title from PDF title page (viewed Oct. 24, 2012).
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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