<ul> <li> The first book to address the classic anthropological theme of property through the ethnography of Amazonia<em>.</em></li> <li> <em>S</em>ets new and challenging terms for anthropological debates about the region and about property in general.</li> <li> Demonstrates that property relations are of central importance in Amazonia and that the ownership of persons plays an especially significant role in native cosmology.</li></ul>