Urban imaginaries in native Amazonia tales of alterity, power, and defiance / edited by Fernando Santos-Granero and Emanuele Fabiano.
| Other author | Santos-Granero, Fernando, 1955- |
| Other author | Fabiano, Emanuele. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Tucson : The University of Arizona Press, [2023] |
| Description | vi, 267 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| Portion of title | Tales of alterity, power, and defiance |
| Contents | Amerindian urban imaginaries : a double-mirror reality / Fernando Santos-Granero and Emanuele Fabiano -- 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 amidst Ese Eja urban imaginaries / Daniela Peluso -- 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 -- 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. |
| Abstract | "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 Imaginaries in Native Amazonia: Tales of Alterity, Power, and Defiance seeks to analyze how these ambiguous urban imaginaries -complex representations that function as cognitive tools- express a singular view of the cosmos and cosmopolitical relations, how they inform and shape forest-city tensions and interactions, and what were the historical processes through which they came into existence. Above all, it seeks to underscore how these urban imaginaries constitute a means through which native Amazonians convey their concerns not only about the nature of power and alterity, but also of domination and defiance. Through the systematic analysis of these urban imaginaries as represented in myths, cosmological discourse, and narratives of personal experiences, the volume seeks to understand the reasons for their widespread diffusion, as well as their influence in present-day rural-urban migration and processes of urbanization. The volume consists of three parts, and eight chapters"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2022031513 |
| ISBN | 9780816549672 (hardcover) |
| ISBN | (ebook) |
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