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1 online resource |
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 |
Notes |
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Guaharibo Indians -- Venezuela -- Economic conditions
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Guaharibo Indians -- Venezuela -- Social conditions
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Guaharibo Indians -- Venezuela -- Social life and customs
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Guaharibo Indians -- Political activity -- Venezuela
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Predation (Biology) -- Economic aspects -- Venezuela
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Predation (Biology) -- Social aspects -- Venezuela
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Natural resources -- Social aspects -- Venezuela
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SOCIAL SCIENCE / General
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Natural resources -- Social aspects
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Venezuela
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Form |
Electronic book
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ISBN |
9781477327098 |
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1477327096 |
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