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

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"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 Imagi...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Fabiano, Emanuele (Editor ), Santos-Granero, Fernando, 1955- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: [Tucson] : The University of Arizona Press, 2023.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Urbanization.
Urban Indians.
Rural-urban migration.
Indians of South America > Social conditions.
City and town life.
Rural-urban migration > Amazon River Region.
Urbanization > Amazon River Region.
City and town life > Amazon River Region.
Urban Indians > Amazon River Region.
Indians of South America > Amazon River Region > Social conditions.
Amazon River Region.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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 Duree" / Fernando Santos-Granero.

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