Table of Contents
Introduction, Joanna Overing, Alan Passes; Part 1 Conviviality as a creative process; Chapter 1 The first love of a young man Salt and sexual education among the Uitoto Indians of Lowland Colombia, Juan Alvaro Echeverri; Chapter 2 Helpless - the affective preconditions of Piro social life, Peter Gow; Chapter 3 The efficacy of laughter, Joanna Overing; Chapter 4 Compassion, anger and broken hearts, Mark Jamieson; Chapter 5 The value of working and speaking together, Alan Passes; Chapter 6 Knowledge and the practice of love and hate among the Enxet of Paraguay, Stephen W. Kidd; Chapter 7 Anger as a marker of love, Catherine Alès; Chapter 8 Homesickness and the Cashinahua self, Elsje Maria Lagrou; Chapter 9 'Though it comes as evil, I embrace it as good', Carlos David Londoño-Sulkin; Part 2 Conquest and contact; Chapter 10 Pretty vacant, Peter Mason; Part 3 The delicacy of Amazonian sociality; Chapter 11 The convivial self and the fear of anger amongst the Airo-Pai of Amazonian Peru, Luisa Elvira Belaunde; Chapter 12 The delicacy of community, Dan Rosengren; Chapter 13 A woman between two men and a man between two women, Marco Antonio Gonçalves; Chapter 14 'The more we are together . . .', Peter Rivière; Chapter 15 The Sisyphus Syndrome, or the struggle for conviviality in Native Amazonia, Fernando Santos-Granero;