Fernando Santos-Granero
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The Occult Life of Things
Native Amazonian Theories of Materiality and Personhood
Edited by Fernando Santos-Granero
The University of Arizona Press
Combining linguistic, ethnological, and historical perspectives, the contributors to this volume draw on a wealth of information gathered from ten Amerindian peoples belonging to seven different linguistic families to identify the basic tenets of what might be called a native Amazonian theory of materiality and personhood.
Slavery and Utopia
The Wars and Dreams of an Amazonian World Transformer
University of Texas Press
Through the career of a charismatic indigenous leader, this book chronicles the struggles surrounding indigenous slavery in Peruvian Amazonia from the collapse of the rubber economy to the beginnings of mass colonization in the region.
- Copyright year: 2018
Vital Enemies
Slavery, Predation, and the Amerindian Political Economy of Life
University of Texas Press
A pioneering study of the enslavement of Amerindians by Amerindians in tropical America, outside the realm of colonial agents.
- Copyright year: 2009
Images of Public Wealth or the Anatomy of Well-Being in Indigenous Amazonia
Edited by Fernando Santos-Granero
The University of Arizona Press
Reflecting a global interest in the topics of well-being, happiness, and the good life, this book explores local notions of public wealth in indigenous Amazonia. The contributors place particular importance in how indigenous views of wealth are linked to the creation of strong, productive, and moral individuals and collectivities, providing thought-provoking new approaches to understanding wealth in non-capitalist, kin-based societies.
- Copyright year: 2015
Urban Imaginaries in Native Amazonia
Tales of Alterity, Power, and Defiance
Edited by Fernando Santos-Granero and Emanuele Fabiano
The University of Arizona Press
Featuring analysis from historical, ethnological, and philosophical perspectives, this volume dissects Indigenous Amazonians’ beliefs about urban imaginaries and their ties to power, alterity, domination, and defiance. Contributors analyze how ambiguous urban imaginaries express a singular view of cosmopolitical relations, how they inform and shape forest-city interactions, and the history of how they came into existence, as well as their influence in present-day migration and urbanization.
- Copyright year: 2023
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