Love and Its Entanglements among the Enxet of Paraguay: Social and Kinship Relations within a Market Economy

Stephen Kidd

doi:10.5771/9781793634696

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In Love and its Entanglements among the Enxet of Paraguay: Social and Kinship Relations within a Market Economy, Stephen Kidd examines the affective discourse and value systems of the indigenous Enxet people. Kidd’s analysis focuses on how the Enxet navigate the market economy in Paraguay and the tensions it exerts on their commitment to egalitarianism, generosity, and personal autonomy.

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Bibliographic data

Edition: 1/2021
Copyright year: 2021
ISBN-Print: 978-1-7936-3468-9
ISBN-Online: 978-1-7936-3469-6
Publisher: Lexington, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 278
Product type: Book Titles

1. Contents No access
2. Foreword No access
3. 1. Notes No access
4. Acknowledgments No access
1. Explaining Sharing No access
2. A Discourse on Affects No access
3. Chapter Outline No access
4. Notes No access
1. The Chaco Ecosystem No access
2. The Ethnographic History of the Enxet No access
3. Indigenous Work Camps: The Contemporary “Homelands” of the Enxet No access
4. Subsisting from Diversity No access
5. Conclusion No access
6. Notes No access
1. The Wanmagko: The Source of Vitality No access
2. Defining the Wáxok No access
3. Constructing the Wáxok No access
4. Characteristics of a Knowledgeable Person No access
5. Lacking “Knowledge” No access
6. Contextualizing Affective Discourse No access
7. Temptation and the Tempter No access
8. Alcohol and Anger No access
9. An Enxet Perspective on Personal Autonomy No access
10. Personal Autonomy and Productive Choices No access
11. Conclusion No access
12. Notes No access
1. The Creation of Kinship No access
2. The Kindred No access
3. The Household and the Community No access
4. Conclusion No access
5. Notes No access
1. Durable Goods and Domestic Animals No access
2. Food Ownership No access
3. Communal Property Rights No access
4. Conclusion No access
5. Notes No access
1. Conceptualizing Indigenous Marriage No access
2. Companionship in Enxet Marriage No access
3. Relations of Demand No access
4. Abandonment, the Ultimate Sanction No access
5. Conclusion No access
6. Notes No access
1. “Love,” the Motivation for Voluntary Sharing No access
2. Voluntary Sharing in Practice No access
3. Beyond the Community: The Joy of the Visit No access
4. Conclusion No access
5. Notes No access
1. “People without Things” No access
2. The Practice of Demand Sharing No access
3. The Discomfort of Borrowing No access
4. In Praise of Deceit No access
5. Redistribution: The Joy and Pain of Leadership No access
6. Conclusion No access
7. Notes No access
1. “Love” and the Generative Power of Money No access
2. Cash and the Maintenance of Egalitarian Relations No access
3. Commoditization within the Internal Economy No access
4. Employing Kin and Coresidents No access
5. “Delayed Return” and Immediate Consumption—A Debate No access
6. Conclusion No access
7. Notes No access
1. Notes No access
1. Notes No access
Bibliography No access Pages 245 - 262
Index No access Pages 263 - 274
About the Author and Contributors No access Pages 275 - 278