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Article: Of fear and friendship: Amazonian sociality beyond kinship and affinity./La crainte et l'amitie: la socialite amazonienne, entre parente et affinite.
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- Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute
- Article date:
- March 1, 2007
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In the matters of lending, assistance in work, and sociability,
friendship plays at least as large a functional part as does mere
kinship, which, when it stands alone, implies for the most part, as
among ourselves, rights and duties frequently less vital than those of
friendship.
Gillin 1975 [1936]: 99
This article is concerned with how sociality in its broadest sense--that is, as a domain that includes relations with alien and even spirit beings--is understood and constructed by Amazonian indigenous peoples. (1) I will analyse trading partnerships, shamanic alliances, and mystical associations with other-worldly beings, as instances of the creation ...