Too many owners: mastery and ownership in Amazonia

This text is concerned with a specific Indigenous category - usually translated as "owner" or "master" - which, in Amazonia, transcends the simple expression of a relationship of property or domain. The category and its reciprocal terms designate a generalized mode of relating th...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Carlos Fausto, David Rodgers
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro 2008-01-01
Series:Mana
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Online Access:http://socialsciences.scielo.org/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0104-93132008000100001&lng=en&tlng=en