Santos-Granero, Fernando. <br/><br/>
Urban Imaginaries in Native Amazonia :  Tales of Alterity, Power, and Defiance. 

 - 1st ed. 
 - 1 online resource (277 pages) 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780816549689 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Indigenous people-Amazon River Region-Social conditions.<br/>City and town life-Amazon River Region.<br/>Urbanization-Amazon River Region.<br/>Rural-urban migration-Amazon River Region.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>F2230