Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Contents
Introduction. Amerindian Urban Imaginaries: A Double-Mirror Reality / Fernando Santos-Granero and Emanuele Fabiano
Part I. Enchanted Cities and Urban Cosmopolitics
1. Cities of Transformation and Power in the Baniwa and Kuripako Cosmos / Robin M. Wright
2. Arboreal City-States, Phyto-Warfare, and Dendritic Societies: An Urarina Metropolitan View of the World / Emanuele Fabiano
3. A Tale of Three Cities: Power Relations amid Ese Eja Urban Imaginaries / Daniela Peluso
Part II. Forest-City Tensions and Interactions
4. Cities of the Forest: Urbanization and Defiance Among the Shuar of Ecuadorian Amazonia / Natalia Buitron
5. Sublime Cities: Ethnographic Fabulations on Plant Beings Among the Jarawara of Brazil / Fabiana Maizza
Part III. Urban Imaginaries Through Time
6. “Originally, Riberalta Was Called Xëbiya and It Was Ruled by Mawa Maxokiri . . .”: Urban Imaginaries and Urban Migration Among the Chacobo of Beni, Bolivia / Philippe Erikson
7. Urbanity in Ancient and Present-Day Southwestern Amazonia: Human-Environment Collectives, Cycles of Generosity, and Their Ruptures / Pirjo Kristiina Virtanen
8. The Deep Roots of Southern Arawak Urban Imaginaries: Tales of Alterity in the Longue Durée / Fernando Santos-Granero
Contributors
Index