Global Ecology and Unequal Exchange: Fetishism in a Zero-Sum World By Alf Hornborg Routledge, 2012 In modern society, we tend to have faith in technology. But is our concept of ‘technology’ itself a cultural illusion? Global Ecology and Unequal Exchange challenges the idea that humanity as a whole is...
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Ecology and Power: Struggles Over Land and Material Resources in the Past, Present, and Future Edited by Alf Hornborg, Brett Clark & Kenneth Hermele Routledge, 2012 Power and social inequality shape patterns of land use and resource management. Ecology and Power explores this relationship from different perspectives, illuminating...
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People of Substance: An Ethnography of Morality in the Colombian Amazon By Carlos Londoño Sulkin University of Toronto Press, 2012 People of Substance is a lively, accessible ethnography of a complex indigenous group of people of the Colombian Amazon who call themselves ‘People of the Center. ’ Carlos...
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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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Amazonian Routes: Indigenous Mobility and Colonial Communities in Northern Brazil By Heather Roller Stanford University Press, 2014 Amazonian Routes: Indigenous Mobility and Colonial Communities in Northern Brazil reconstructs the world of eighteenth-century Amazonia to argue that indigenous mobility did not undermine settlement or community. In doing so, it revises...
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Mysteries of the Jaguar Shamans of the Northwest Amazon By Robin M. Wright, with forward by Michael J. Harner University of Nebraska Press, 2013 Mysteries of the Jaguar Shamans of the Northwest Amazon tells the life story of Mandu da Silva, the last living jaguar shaman among the Baniwa...
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