Description: Further DetailsTitle: Predatory EconomiesCondition: NewISBN-10: 1477327088EAN: 9781477327081ISBN: 9781477327081Publisher: University of Texas PressFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 04/18/2023Description: A study of the modes of predation used by and against the Sanema people of Venezuela. Predation is central to the cosmology and lifeways of the Sanema-speaking Indigenous people of Venezuelan Amazonia, but it also marks their experience of modernity under the socialist “Bolivarian” regime and its immense oil wealth. Yet predation is not simply violence and plunder. For Sanema people, it means a great deal more: enticement, seduction, persuasion. It suggests an imminent threat but also opportunity and even sanctuary. Amy Penfield spent two and a half years in the field, living with and learning from Sanema communities. She discovered that while predation is what we think it is—invading enemies, incursions by gold miners, and unscrupulous state interventions—Sanema are not merely prey. Predation, or appropriation without reciprocity, is essential to their own activities. They use predatory techniques of trickery in hunting and shamanism activities, while at the same time, they employ tactics of manipulation to obtain resources from neighbors and from the state. A richly detailed ethnography, Predatory Economies looks beyond well-worn tropes of activism and resistance to tell a new story of agency from an Indigenous perspective. Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 229mmItem Length: 152mmItem Width: 20mmAuthor: Amy PenfieldGenre: Society & CultureTopic: Social SciencesItem Weight: 666gSubtitle: The Sanema and the Socialist State in Contemporary AmazoniaRelease Year: 2023 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: Predatory Economies
Title: Predatory Economies
ISBN-10: 1477327088
EAN: 9781477327081
ISBN: 9781477327081
Release Date: 04/18/2023
Release Year: 2023
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Genre: Society & Culture
Topic: Social Sciences
Subtitle: The Sanema and the Socialist State in Contemporary Amazonia
Number of Pages: 248 Pages
Publication Name: Predatory Economies : the Sanema and the Socialist State in Contemporary Amazonia
Language: English
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Subject: Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies), Anthropology / Cultural & Social
Item Height: 0.7 in
Publication Year: 2023
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 12 Oz
Item Length: 8.9 in
Subject Area: Social Science, History
Author: Amy Penfield
Item Width: 6 in
Format: Trade Paperback
