Images Of Public Wealth Or The Anatomy Of Well-being In Indigenous Amazonia Anatomy Of Well-being In Indigenous Amazonia Project Muse Upcc Books

What is considered a good life in contemporary societies? Can we measure well-being and happiness? Reflecting a global interest on the topics of well-being, happiness, and the good life in the face of the multiple failures of millennial capitalism, Images of Public Wealth or the Anatomy of Well-Being in Indigenous Amazonia deliberately appropriates a concept developed by classical economists to understand wealth accumulation in capitalist societies in order to denaturalize it and assess its applicability in non-capitalist kin-based societies. Mindful of the widespread discontent generated by the ongoing economic crisis in postindustrial societies as well as the renewed attempts by social scientists to measure more effectively what we consider to be development and economic success, the contributors to this volume contend that the study of public wealth in indigenous Amazonia provides not only an exceptional opportunity to apprehend native notions of wealth, poverty, and the good life, but also to engage in a critical revision of capitalist constructions of living well. Through ethnographic analysis and thought-provoking new approaches to contemporary and historical cases, the book's contributors reveal how indigenous views of wealth-based on the abundance of intangibles such as vitality, good health, biopower, and convivial relations—are linked to the creation of strong, productive, and moral individuals and collectivities, differing substantially from those in capitalist societies more inclined toward the avid accumulation and consumption of material goods. This Book Explores Local Notions Of Public Wealth In Indigenous Amazonia, Placing Particular Importance In How Indigenous Views Of Wealth Are Linked To The Creation Of Strong, Productive, And Moral Individuals And Collectivities, Providing Thought-provoking New Approaches To Understanding Wealth In Non-capitalist, Kin-based Societies--provided By Publisher. Introduction: Images Of Public Wealth / Fernando Santos-granero -- [part] I. Health, Vitality, And Euphoria. 1. It's Ear-y And Euphoric : Amazonian Music And The Performance Of Public Wealth Among The Suyá/kïsêdjê / Anthony Seeger ; 2. Biopolitics Of Health As Wealth In The Original Risk Society / Beth A. Conklin ; 3. Public Wealth And The Yanesha Struggle For Vitality / Fernando Santos-granero -- [part] Ii. Land, Money, And Care. 4. Amazonian Kichwa Leadership : The Circulation Of Wealth And The Ambiguities Of Mediation / María A. Guzmán-gallegos ; 5. It Makes Me Sad When They Say We Are Poor. We Are Rich! : Of Wealth And Public Wealth(s) In Indigenous Amazonia / Juan Pablo Sarmiento Barletti ; 6. Divine Banknote : The Translation Of Project Money Into Public Wealth / Giovanna Micarelli -- [part] Iii. Living Well. 7. Clashing Concepts Of The Good Life : Beauty, Knowledge, And Vision Versus National Wealth In Amazonian Ecuador / Norman E. Whitten Jr. And Dorothea Scott Whitten. Edited By Fernando Santos-granero. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Contents 6 Introduction: Images of Public Wealth - Fernando Santos-Granero 10 I. Health, Vitality, and Euphoria 42 1. It’s Ear- y and Euphoric: Amazonian Music and the Performance of Public Wealth Among the Suyá/Kïsêdjê - Anthony Seeger 44 2. Biopolitics of Health as Wealth in the Original Risk Society - Beth A. Conklin 67 3. Public Wealth and the Yanesha Struggle for Vitality - Fernando Santos-Granero 96 II. Land, Money, and Care 122 4. Amazonian Kichwa Leadership: The Circulation of Wealth and the Ambiguities of Mediation - María A. Guzmán- Gallegos 124 5. “It Makes Me Sad When They Say We Are Poor. We Are Rich!”: Of Wealth and Public Wealth(s) in Indigenous Amazonia - Juan Pablo Sarmiento Barletti 146 6. Divine Banknote: The Translation of Project Money into Public Wealth - Giovanna Micarelli 168 III. Living Well 196 7. Clashing Concepts of the “Good Life”: Beauty, Knowledge, and Vision Versus National Wealth in Amazonian Ecuador - Norman E. Whitten, Jr., and Dorothea Scott Whitten 198 Contributors 224 Index 228