New Books by SALSA Members

Non-Humans in Amerindian South America

NON-HUMANS IN AMERINDIAN SOUTH AMERICA ed. by J. J. Rivera (2018)

Non-Humans in Amerindian South America: Ethnographies of Indigenous Cosmologies, Rituals and Songs Edited by Juan Javier Rivera Andía Berghahn Books, 2018 Drawing on fieldwork from diverse Amerindian societies whose lives and worlds are undergoing processes of transformation, adaptation, and deterioration, Non-Humans in Amerindian South America: Ethnographies of Indigenous...

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Cañaris

CAÑARIS: ETNOGRAFIAS Y DOCUMENTOS DE LA SIERRA NORTE DEL PERU ed. by J. J. Rivera Andía (2018)

Cañaris: etnografías y documentos de la sierra norte del Perú Edited by Juan Javier Rivera Andía Colección Ethnographica, 2018 Cañaris: etnografías y documentos de la sierra norte del Perú contiene diversos artículos que giran sobre una región muy poco conocida del Perú, la Sierra de Lambayeque y el área...

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Indigenous Life Projects and Extractivism

INDIGENOUS LIFE PROJECTS AND EXTRACTIVISM ed. by Cecilie Vindal Ødegaard & Juan Javier Rivera Andía (2019, Open access)

Indigenous Life Projects and Extractivism Edited by Cecilie Vindal Ødegaard and Juan Javier Rivera Andía Palgrave Macmillan, 2019 (ebook, open access) Exploring indigenous life in encounters with extractivism, Indigenous Life Projects and Extrativism discusses how current turbulences actualise questions of indigeneity, difference and ontological dynamics in the Andes and...

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SENTIENT LANDS by P. di Giminiani (2018)

Sentient Lands: Indigeneity, Property, and Political Imagination in Neoliberal Chile By Piergiorgio di Giminiani University of Arizona Press, 2018 Sentient Lands is a historically grounded ethnography of the Mapuche people’s engagement with state-run reconciliation and land-restitution efforts. Piergiorgio Di Giminiani analyzes environmental relations, property, state power, market forces, and...

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Club Fighters of the Amazon

CLUB FIGHTERS OF THE AMAZON By G. Verswijver (2018 [1992])

The Club-Fighters of the Amazon Warfare among the Kayapo Indians of Central Brazil By Gustaaf Verswijver  Turuti Books, 2018 (new edition of Gustaaf Verswijver's 1992 monograph) First published in 1992, The Club-Fighters of the Amazona has been described by Laura Rival (University of Oxford) as “an invaluable contribution to Kayapo ethnography”....

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Creating Dialogues

CREATING DIALOGUES ed. by H. Veber & P. K. Virtanen (2017)

Creating Dialogues: Indigenous Perceptions and Changing Forms of Leadership in Amazonia Edited by Hanne Veber & Pirjo Kristiina Virtanen University Press of Colorado & Utah State University Press, 2017 Creating Dialogues discusses contemporary forms of leadership in a variety of Amazonian indigenous groups. Examining the creation of indigenous leaders...

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