Images of Public Wealth or the Anatomy of Well-Being in Indigenous Amazonia.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (233 pages)
Intro -- Contents -- Introduction: Images of Public Wealth - Fernando Santos-Granero -- I. Health, Vitality, and Euphoria -- 1. It's Ear- y and Euphoric: Amazonian Music and the Performance of Public Wealth Among the Suyá/Kïsêdjê - Anthony Seeger -- 2. Biopolitics of Health as Wealth in the Original Risk Society - Beth A. Conklin -- 3. Public Wealth and the Yanesha Struggle for Vitality - Fernando Santos-Granero -- II. Land, Money, and Care -- 4. Amazonian Kichwa Leadership: The Circulation of Wealth and the Ambiguities of Mediation - María A. Guzmán- Gallegos -- 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 -- 6. Divine Banknote: The Translation of Project Money into Public Wealth - Giovanna Micarelli -- III. Living Well -- 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 -- Contributors -- Index.
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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.