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Under a Watchful Eye – Self, Power, and Intimacy in Amazonia
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Under a Watchful Eye – Self, Power, and Intimacy in Amazonia Paperback - 2012

by Walker, Harry

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Univ of California Pr, 2012. Paperback. New. 1st edition. 252 pages. 8.75x6.00x0.50 inches.
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  • Title Under a Watchful Eye – Self, Power, and Intimacy in Amazonia
  • Author Walker, Harry
  • Binding Paperback
  • Condition New
  • Pages 252
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Univ of California Pr, Berkeley
  • Date 2012
  • Features Bibliography, Index
  • Bookseller's Inventory # x-0520273605
  • ISBN 9780520273603 / 0520273605
  • Weight 0.82 lbs (0.37 kg)
  • Dimensions 9 x 6 x 0.57 in (22.86 x 15.24 x 1.45 cm)
  • Themes
    • Interdisciplinary Studies: Aboriginal/Native Studies
  • Library of Congress subjects Urarina Indians - Social life and customs, Urarina Indians - Psychology
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2012025913
  • Dewey Decimal Code 305.898

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From the rear cover

"In this beautifully written study of Urarina mastery of life, Walker demonstrates the continued importance of careful ethnographic attention to historically emergent forms of subjectivity. Walker's perceptive attention to social values and organising principles helps us understand how the Urarina transcend predation, identity and difference. We are transported to the heart of a society both more individualising and more communalist than the ones we have grown up in."--Laura Rival, author of Trekking through History: The Huaorani of Amazonian Ecuador

"A celebration of Urarina understandings of the individual and the social world, Under a Watchful Eye unveils the many paradoxes of native Amazonian sociality. Well-written and finely crafted, the book critically engages with issues raised by perspectivism, incorporation theory, and constructional approaches, proposing novel and stimulating insights on indigenous notions of living well."--Fernando Santos-Granero, author of Vital Enemies: Slavery, Predation, and the Amerindian Political Economy of Life

"This book is based on the sensitive and multi-layered ethnography which only real, long-term participant observation can produce. We are convinced by detailed supporting evidence and never lost, as is the case for some Amazonian ethnography, in formulations, which having acquired an academic life of their own, seem impossibly remote from the experience of shared human practice."--Maurice Bloch, author of How We Think They Think: Anthropological Studies in Cognition, Memory and Literacy


About the author

Harry Walker is Lecturer in Anthropology at the London School of Economics and Political Science.