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Author Penfield, Amy, author.

Title Predatory economies : the Sanema and the socialist state in contemporary Amazonia / Amy Penfield
Edition First edition
Published Austin : University of Texas Press, 2023

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Contents Key characters -- Introduction. Locating predators and prey -- Predation, then and now -- Extracting good things -- Horizons of the unknown -- Subterranean forces -- Invoking the state -- Forest papers -- Epilogue. Predatory economies in Amazonia and beyond
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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Guaharibo Indians -- Venezuela -- Economic conditions
Guaharibo Indians -- Venezuela -- Social conditions
Guaharibo Indians -- Venezuela -- Social life and customs
Guaharibo Indians -- Political activity -- Venezuela
Predation (Biology) -- Economic aspects -- Venezuela
Predation (Biology) -- Social aspects -- Venezuela
Natural resources -- Social aspects -- Venezuela
SOCIAL SCIENCE / General
Natural resources -- Social aspects
Venezuela
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781477327098
1477327096