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Title Images of public wealth or the anatomy of well-being in Indigenous Amazonia / edited by Fernando Santos-Granero
Published Tucson : The University of Arizona Press, 2015

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Contents Introduction : Images of Public Wealth / Fernando Santos-Granero -- Part I. Health, Vitality, Euphoria. Chapter 1. Its Ear-y and Euphoric: Amazonian Music and the Performance of Public Wealth among the Suyá/Kïsêdjê / Anthony Seeger -- Chapter 2. BioPolitics of Health as Wealth in the Original Risk Society / Beth Conklin -- Chapter 3. Public Wealth and the Yanesha Struggle for Vitality / Fernando Santos-Granero -- Part II. Land, Money, Care. Chapter 4. Amazonian Kichwa Leadership: The Circulation of Wealth and the Ambiguities of Mediation / María A. Guzmán-Gallegos -- Chapter 5. "It Makes Me Sad When They Say We Are Poor, We Are Rich!" : Of Wealth and Public Wealth(s) in Indigenous Amazonia / Juan Pablo Sarmiento Barletti -- Chapter 6. Divine Banknote: The Translation of Project Money into Public Wealth / Giovanna Micarelli -- Part III. Living Well. Chapter 7. Clashing Concepts of the "Good Life" : Beauty, Knowledge, and Vision versus National Wealth in Amazonian Ecuador / Norman E. Whitten, Jr. and Dorothea Scott Whitten
Summary "This book explores local notions of public wealth in Indigenous Amazonia, placing 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"--Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Indians of South America -- Amazon River Region -- Economic conditions
Indians of South America -- Amazon River Region -- Social conditions
Wealth -- Amazon River Region
Well-being -- Amazon River Region
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
Indians of South America -- Economic conditions
Indians of South America -- Social conditions
Wealth
Well-being
Amazon River Region
Form Electronic book
Author Santos-Granero, Fernando, 1955- editor
LC no. 2015005907
ISBN 081653229X
9780816532292
9780816531899
0816531897
Other Titles Anatomy of well-being in Indigenous Amazonia