The anthropology of love and anger : the aesthetics of conviviality in Native Amazonia / edited by Joanna Overing and Alan Passes.

London ; New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2000.

xiv, 305 pages ; 25 cm

Introduction: Conviviality and the opening up of Amazonian anthropology / Joanna Overing and Alan Passes -- pt. I. Conviviality as a creative process: the aesthetics of the passions and embodiments of community. 1. The first love of a young man: salt and sexual education among the Uitoto Indians of Lowland Colombia / Juan Alvaro Echeverri. 2. Helpless -- the affective preconditions of Piro social life / Peter Gow. 3. The efficacy of laughter: the ludic side of magic within Amazonian sociality / Joanna Overing. 4. Compassion, anger and broken hearts: ontology and the role of language in the Miskitu lament / Mark Jamieson. 5. The value of working and speaking together: a facet of Pa'ikwene (Palikur) conviviality / Alan Passes. 6. Knowledge and the practice of love and hate among the Enxet of Paraguay / Stephen W. Kidd. 7. Anger as a marker of love: the ethic of conviviality among the Yanomami / Catherine Ales.

Includes bibliographical references and index.