2023-books

Persistence of Good Living

PERSISTENCE OF GOOD LIVING by J.R. Welch (2023)

Persistence of Good Living A'uwe Life Cycles and Well-Being in the Central Brazilian Cerrados By James R. Welch The University of Arizona Press, 2023 Persistence of Good Living explores how cultural understandings of well-being often differ from scientific measures such as health, happiness, and affluence. For the Indigenous A’uwẽ (Xavante)...

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Urban Imaginaries in Native Amazonia

URBAN IMAGINARIES IN NATIVE AMAZONIA ed. by F. Santos-Granero & E. Fabiano (2023)

Urban Imaginaries in Native Amazonia Tales of Alterity, Power, and Defiance Edited by Fernando Santos Granero and Emanuele Fabiano The University of Arizona Press, 2023 Urban Imaginaries in Native Amazonia explores how urban life has long intrigued Indigenous Amazonians, who regard cities as the locus of both extraordinary power and...

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