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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PANEL 01: Urban Imaginaries in Native Amazonia: Tales of Alterity, Power, and Defiance SALSA XII Sesquiannual Conference - Vienna, 2019 Organizers: Fernando Santos-Granero, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute Emanuele Fabiano, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú – PUCP, Peru Chairs: Fernando Santos-Granero, Emanuele Fabiano Discussant: Jonathan D. Hill, Southern Illinois University - Carbndale,...
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Slavery and Utopia: The Wars and Dreams of an Amazonian World Transformer By Fernando Santos-Granero University of Texas Press, 2018 In the first half of the twentieth century, a charismatic Peruvian Amazonian indigenous chief, José Carlos Amaringo Chico, played a key role in leading his people, the Ashaninka,...
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Images of Public Wealth or the Anatomy of Well-Being in Indigenous Amazonia Edited by Fernando Santos-Granero The University of Arizona Press, 2015 What is considered a good life in contemporary societies? Can we measure well-being and happiness? Reflecting a global interest on the topics of well-being, happiness, and...
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The Occult Life of Things: Native Amazonian Theories of Materiality and Personhood Edited by Fernando Santos-Granero University of Arizona Press, 2013 Native peoples of the Amazon view objects, especially human artifacts, as the first cosmic creations and the building blocks from which the natural world has been shaped....
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