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Predatory economies : the Sanema and the socialist state in contemporary Amazonia / Amy Penfield.
Penn Museum Library F2520.1.G68 P46 2023
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Penfield, Amy, author.
- Series:
- Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long series in Latin American and Latino art and culture
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Guaharibo Indians--Venezuela--Economic conditions.
- Guaharibo Indians.
- Guaharibo Indians--Venezuela--Social conditions.
- Guaharibo Indians--Venezuela--Social life and customs.
- Guaharibo Indians--Political activity--Venezuela.
- Predation (Biology)--Economic aspects--Venezuela.
- Predation (Biology).
- Predation (Biology)--Social aspects--Venezuela.
- Natural resources--Social aspects--Venezuela.
- Natural resources.
- Natural resources--Social aspects.
- Venezuela.
- Physical Description:
- x, 214 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Austin, TX : University of Texas Press, 2023.
- Summary:
- "The Sanema are an Indigenous people living in Venezuelan Amazonia whose lives increasingly intersect with forces outside their forest homeland, including those of oil extraction, gold mining, and a market economy. This ethnography focuses on predation as understood though Sanema cosmology and history, which incorporate ideas of trickery, mimicry, supplication, and seduction as they relate to predatory others, to investigate consumer goods and labor; government administrators as sorcerers/raiders; "conjuring" (i.e., meeting with) the state when oil wealth made it more generous; bureaucracy; and the seductive nature of resources such as oil, gasoline, and gold"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: ch. 1 Predation, Then and Now
- ch. 2 Extracting Good Things
- ch. 3 Horizons of the Unknown
- ch. 4 Subterranean Forces
- ch. 5 Invoking the State
- ch. 6 Forest Papers.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9781477327074
- 147732707X
- 9781477327081
- 1477327088
- OCLC:
- 1341991319
- Publisher Number:
- 99993618228
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