| Description |
1 online resource (vi, 267 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Contents |
Introduction: Amerindian urban imaginaries: a double-mirror reality / Fernando Santos-Granero and Emanuele Fabiano -- Part I. Enchanted cities and urban cosmopolitics -- 1. Cities of transformations and power in the Baniwa and Kuripako cosmos / Robin M. Wright -- 2. Arboreal city-states, phyto-warfare, and dendritic societies: an Urarina metropolitan view of the world / Emanuele Fabiano -- 3. A tale of three cities: power relations amidst Ese Eja urban imaginaries / Daniela Peluso -- Part II. Forest-city tensions and interactions -- 4. Cities of the forest: urbanization and defiance among the Shuar of Ecuadorian Amazonia / Natalia Buitron -- 5. Sublime cities: ethnographic fabulations on plant-beings (Jarawara, Brazil) / Fabiana Maizza -- Part III. Urban imaginaries through time -- 6. "Originally, Riberalta was called Xëbiya and it was ruled by Mawa Maxokiri ...": imaginaries and urban migration among the Chacobo (Beni, Bolivia) / Philippe Erikson -- 7. Urban imaginaries in southwestern Amazonia: human-environment collectives, cycles of generosity, and their ruptures / Pirjo Kristiina Virtanen -- 8. The deep roots of southern Arawak urban imaginaries: tales of alterity in the "Longue Durée" / Fernando Santos-Granero |
| Summary |
"Urban life has long intrigued native Amazonians, who regard cities as the locus of both extraordinary power and danger. Cities -both modern and ancient- have thus become models for the representation of extreme alterity under the guise of extraordinary, other-than-human worlds. The Urban Imaginaries in Native Amazonia: Tales of Alterity, Power, and Defiance seeks to analyze how these ambiguous urban imaginaries -complex representations that function as cognitive tools- express a singular view of the cosmos and cosmopolitical relations, how they inform and shape forest-city tensions and interactions, and what were the historical processes through which they came into existence. Above all, it seeks to underscore how these urban imaginaries constitute a means through which native Amazonians convey their concerns not only about the nature of power and alterity, but also of domination and defiance. Through the systematic analysis of these urban imaginaries as represented in myths, cosmological discourse, and narratives of personal experiences, the volume seeks to understand the reasons for their widespread diffusion, as well as their influence in present-day rural-urban migration and processes of urbanization. The volume consists of three parts, and eight chapters"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on May 23, 2023) |
| Subject |
Indians of South America -- Amazon River Region -- Social conditions
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Urban Indians -- Amazon River Region
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City and town life -- Amazon River Region
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Urbanization -- Amazon River Region
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Rural-urban migration -- Amazon River Region
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SOCIAL SCIENCE / General
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City and town life
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Indians of South America -- Social conditions
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Rural-urban migration
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Urban Indians
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Urbanization
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Amazon River Region
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Santos-Granero, Fernando, 1955- editor.
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Fabiano, Emanuele, editor.
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| LC no. |
2022031514 |
| ISBN |
9780816549689 |
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0816549680 |
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