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Urban Imaginaries in Native Amazonia : Tales of Alterity, Power, and Defiance.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Tucson : University of Arizona Press, 2023Copyright date: ©2023Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (277 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780816549689
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Urban Imaginaries in Native AmazoniaLOC classification:
  • F2230
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- 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 Transformation 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 amid 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 Among the Jarawara of Brazil / Fabiana Maizza -- Part III. Urban Imaginaries Through Time -- 6. "Originally, Riberalta Was Called Xëbiya and It Was Ruled by Mawa Maxokiri . . .": Urban Imaginaries and Urban Migration Among the Chacobo of Beni, Bolivia / Philippe Erikson -- 7. Urbanity in Ancient and Present-Day 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 -- Contributors -- Index.
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Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- 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 Transformation 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 amid 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 Among the Jarawara of Brazil / Fabiana Maizza -- Part III. Urban Imaginaries Through Time -- 6. "Originally, Riberalta Was Called Xëbiya and It Was Ruled by Mawa Maxokiri . . .": Urban Imaginaries and Urban Migration Among the Chacobo of Beni, Bolivia / Philippe Erikson -- 7. Urbanity in Ancient and Present-Day 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 -- Contributors -- Index.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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