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13 produkter
Comparative Arawakan Histories
Rethinking Language Family and Culture Area in Amazonia
Av Jonathan D. Hill, Fernando Santos-Granero
Häftad, 2006
398 kr
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The first synthesis of the writings of ethnologists, historians, and anthropologists on contemporary Arawakan cultures
Comparative Arawakan Histories
Rethinking Language Family and Culture Area in Amazonia
Av Jonathan D. Hill, Fernando Santos-Granero
E-bok, 2010
585 kr
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Before they were largely decimated and dispersed by the effects of European colonization, Arawak-speaking peoples were the most widespread language family in Latin America and the Caribbean, and they were the first people Columbus encountered in the Americas. Comparative Arawakan Histories, in …
Vital Enemies
Slavery, Predation, and the Amerindian Political Economy of Life
Häftad, 2009
342 kr
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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 …
Power of Love
The Moral Use of Knowledge among the Amuesga of Central Peru
Häftad, 2021
633 kr
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An exploration of the moral use of knowledge among the Amuesga of Central Peru.
Power of Love
The Moral Use of Knowledge among the Amuesga of Central Peru
Inbunden, 1991
2131 kr
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An exploration of the moral use of knowledge among the Amuesga of Central Peru.
Occult Life of Things
Native Amazonian Theories of Materiality and Personhood
Av Fernando Santos-Granero, Fernando Santos-Granero
Häftad, 2013
343 kr
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Native peoples of the Amazon view objects, especially human artifacts, as the first cosmic creations and the building blocks from which the natural world has been shaped. In these constructional cosmologies, spears became the stings of wasps, hammocks became spiderwebs, stools became the buttocks …
Images of Public Wealth or the Anatomy of Well-Being in Indigenous Amazonia
Inbunden, 2015
742 kr
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What is considered a good life in contemporary societies? Can we measure well-being and happiness? Reflecting a global interest on the topics of well-being, happiness, and the good life in the face of the multiple failures of millennial capitalism, Images of Public Wealth or the Anatomy of …
Urban Imaginaries in Native Amazonia
Tales of Alterity, Power, and Defiance
Av Fernando Santos-Granero, Emanuele Fabiano
Inbunden, 2023
734 kr
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Urban life has long intrigued Indigenous Amazonians, who regard cities as the locus of both extraordinary power and danger. Modern and ancient cities alike have thus become models for the representation of extreme alterity under the guise of supernatural enchanted cities. This volume seeks to …
Urban Imaginaries in Native Amazonia
Tales of Alterity, Power, and Defiance
Av Fernando Santos-Granero, Emanuele Fabiano
Häftad, 2025
396 kr
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Urban life has long intrigued Indigenous Amazonians, who regard cities as the locus of both extraordinary power and danger. Modern and ancient cities alike have thus become models for the representation of extreme alterity under the guise of supernatural enchanted cities. This volume seeks to …
Power of Love
The Moral Use of Knowledge among the Amuesga of Central Peru
E-bok, 2020
729 kr
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An exploration of the moral use of knowledge among the Amuesga of Central Peru.
Power of Love
The Moral Use of Knowledge among the Amuesga of Central Peru
E-bok, 2020
745 kr
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An exploration of the moral use of knowledge among the Amuesga of Central Peru.
Slavery and Utopia
The Wars and Dreams of an Amazonian World Transformer
Inbunden, 2018
1054 kr
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In the first half of the twentieth century, a charismatic Peruvian Amazonian indigenous chief, JosÉ Carlos Amaringo Chico, played a key role in leading his people, the Ashaninka, through the chaos generated by the collapse of the rubber economy in 1910 and the subsequent pressures of colonists, …
Slavery and Utopia
The Wars and Dreams of an Amazonian World Transformer
Häftad, 2018
338 kr
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In the first half of the twentieth century, a charismatic Peruvian Amazonian indigenous chief, JosÉ Carlos Amaringo Chico, played a key role in leading his people, the Ashaninka, through the chaos generated by the collapse of the rubber economy in 1910 and the subsequent pressures of colonists, …
