Ownership and Nurture

Ownership and NurtureThe first book to address the classic anthropological theme of property through the ethnography of Amazonia, Ownership and Nurture sets new and challenging terms for anthropological debates about the region and about property in general. Property and ownership have special significance and carry specific meanings in Amazonia, which has been portrayed as the antithesis of Western, property based, civilization. Through carefully constructed studies of

Argues that traditional political science is failing to identify and address fundamental political phenomena of our time and proposes an alternative value-based political science

and encourages her to take control of her life and fortune

how they organized themselves

Freed from the prospect of imprisonment

A wide-ranging exploration of the Hekhalot and Merkavah literature

Ranging over a variety of genres

comprehensive and framed by Callaghan and Harker’s detailed introductions

Set in Ancient Rome

is in its detailed description of Bunyan’s arrest and imprisonment

This is the first book to deal with the Jewish thought of Leo Strauss

a teacher and college professor in Troy

Includes seven new chapters with learning objectives