Title Vital enemies : slavery, predation, and the Amerindian political economy of life / Fernando Santos-Granero

Edition 1st ed Published Austin : University of Texas Press, ©2009

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Description 1 online resource (x, 280 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations, maps Contents Capturing societies -- Captive slaves -- Servant groups -- Tributary populations -- Markers of servitude -- Servile obligations -- Dependent status -- Civilizing the other -- Warring against the other Summary Annotation Analyzing slavery and other forms of servitude in six non-state Indigenous societies of tropical America at the time of European contact, Vital Enemies offers a fascinating new approach to the study of slavery based on the notion of "political economy of life." Fernando Santos-Granero draws on the earliest available historical sources to provide novel information on Amerindian regimes of servitude, sociologies of submission, and ideologies of capture.<br />Estimating that captive slaves represented up to 20 percent of the total population and up to 40 percent when combined with other forms of servitude, Santos-Granero argues that native forms of servitude fulfill the modern understandings of slavery, though Amerindian contexts provide crucial distinctions with slavery as it developed in the American South. The Amerindian understanding of life forces as being finite, scarce, unequally distributed, and in constant circulation yields a concept of all living beings as competing for vital energy. The capture of human beings is an extreme manifestation of this understanding, but it marks an important element in the ways Amerindian "captive slavery" was misconstrued by European conquistadors.<br />Illuminating a cultural facet that has been widely overlooked or miscast for centuries, Vital Enemies makes possible new dialogues regarding hierarchies in the field of native studies, as well as a provocative re-framing of pre- and post-contact America Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 240-270) and index Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL English Print version record digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Subject Enslaved Indians -- America Slavery -- America Indian captivities -- America Prisoners of war -- America Ethnic conflict -- America HISTORY -- Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies) HISTORY. HISTORY -- Latin America -- General. Ethnic conflict Ethnic relations -- Economic aspects Indian captivities Enslaved Indians Prisoners of war Slavery Sklaverei SUBJECT America -- Ethnic relations -- Economic aspects America -- History -- To 1810. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85004264 Subject America Amerika Indianer. Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 9780292793811 0292793812 0292718888 9780292718883

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