Under a Watchful Eye: Self, Power, and Intimacy in Amazonia by Harry Walker

Ethnographic Studies in Subjectivity #9

Under a Watchful Eye: Self, Power, and Intimacy in Amazonia

Harry Walker

252 pages paperback 2013

2 editions

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What does it mean to be accompanied? How can autonomy and a sense of self emerge through one's involvement with others? This book examines the formation of self among the Urarina, an Amazonian people of lowland Peru. Based on detailed ethnography,...

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