Marc Brightman 
The Imbalance of Power [PDF ebook] 
Leadership, Masculinity and Wealth in the Amazon

Preface
Acknowledgements
A note on Trio and Wayana orthography
List of acronyms and abbreviations
Maps

Introduction

• Guianan Leadership


• Guiana


• The Trio, Wayana and Akuriyo


• Fieldwork and its Limitations


• Structure and Scope of the Book

Chapter 1. Making Trio and Other Peoples

• Ethnogenesis


• A Theory of Continuity


• Substance and Filiation


• Telling Stories, Making Groups


• Time, History and Identity


• ‘The Trio’ as a Group


• Ethnogenesis and Alterity


• Missionisation and Ethnicity: The Contact of the Akuriyo


• Slavery and Identity


• Marriage and Manioc


• Strategic Ethnicity


• Leadership Inside and Out

Chapter 2. Houses and In-Laws

• Leadership, Inequality and the House


• Houses and Housebuilders


• The House as Artefact


• The Collective House


• Scale and the Household


• Consanguinity, Affinity and the ‘Atom of Politics’


• Symmetry and Asymmetry


• Leadership and the House as Idea

Chapter 3. Trade, Money and Influence

• Economic Influence


• Exchange and Trade


• Trading with Maroons


• Money


• The Politics of Air Travel


• Airborne Evangelism


• The City, Prestige and Mobility


• Air Entrepreneurship


• Public Speaking


• Literacy


• Metaphysical Communication


• Bible Economy


• Leadership and Influence Beyond Consanguinity

Chapter 4. Music and Ritual Capacities

• Structured Sound


• Tortoiseshell Pipes: Individual and Collective


• Rattles and Shamanism: Percussion and Harmony


• Capacity, Blowing and Song


• The Music of the Other


• Speech as Music


• Ceremonial Dialogue


• Music and Leadership


• Heterophony


• Music and Difference

Chapter 5. Owning Places and Persons

• The Language of Possession


• Moveable Wealth


• The Value of Land


• Names and Places


• Gender Asymmetry and Women as Property


• Ownership, Wealth and Influence

Conclusion: Society Transcends the State

Glossary
Appendix: Trio Relationship Terminology
References

Marc Brightman is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Bologna. He has published on a variety of topics including ownership, indigenous movements, animism and forest governance.