Table of Contents

Introduction: Conviviality and the opening up of Amazonian anthropology 1. The first love of a young man: salt and sexual education among the Uitoto Indians of Lowland Columbia Juan Alvaro Echeverri 2. Helpless: the affective preconditions of Piro social life Peter Gow 3. The efficacy of laughter: the Iudic 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 Kidd 7. Anger as a marker of love: the ethic of conviviality among the Yanomami Catherine Ales 8. Homesickness and the Cashinahua self: a reflection of the embodied condition of relatedness Elsje Lagrou 9. 'Though it comes as evil, I embrace it as good': social sensibilities and the transformation of malignant agency among the Muinane Carlos David Londono-Sulkin 10. Pretty vacant: Columbus, conviviality, and New World faces Peter Mason 11. The convivial self and the fear of anger amongst the Airo-Pai of Amazonian Peru Luisa Elvira Belaunde 12. The delicacy of community: on kisagantsi in Matsigenka narrative discourse Dan Rosengren 13. A woman between two men and a man between two women: the production of jealousy and the predation of sociality amongst the Paresi Indians of Mato Grosso (Brazil) Marco Antonio Goncalves 14. 'The more we are together .' Peter Riviere 15. The Sisyphus syndrome, or the struggle for conviviality in native Amazonia Fernando Santos-Granero