Slavery and Utopia

The Wars and Dreams of an Amazonian World Transformer

Fernando Santos-Granero (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

332 Seiten

2018
University of Texas Press (Verlag)
978-1-4773-1714-3 (ISBN)

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In the first half of the twentieth century, a charismatic Peruvian Amazonian indigenous chief, JosÉ Carlos Amaringo Chico, played a key role in leading his people, the Ashaninka, through the chaos generated by the collapse of the rubber economy in 1910 and the subsequent pressures of colonists, missionaries, and government officials to assimilate them into the national society. Slavery and Utopia reconstructs the life and political trajectory of this leader whom the people called Tasorentsi, the name the Ashaninka give to the world-transforming gods and divine emissaries that come to this earth to aid the Ashaninka in times of crisis.

Fernando Santos-Granero follows Tasorentsi’s transformations as he evolved from being a debt-peon and quasi-slave to being a slave raider; inspirer of an Ashaninka movement against white-mestizo rubber extractors and slave traffickers; paramount chief of a multiethnic, anti-colonial, and anti-slavery uprising; and enthusiastic preacher of an indigenized version of Seventh-Day Adventist doctrine, whose world-transforming message and personal influence extended well beyond Peru’s frontiers. Drawing on an immense body of original materials ranging from archival documents and oral histories to musical recordings and visual works, Santos-Granero presents an in-depth analysis of chief Tasorentsi’s political discourse and actions. He demonstrates that, despite Tasorentsi’s constant self-reinventions, the chief never forsook his millenarian beliefs, anti-slavery discourse, or efforts to liberate his people from white-mestizo oppression. Slavery and Utopia thus convincingly refutes those who claim that the Ashaninka proclivity to messianism is an anthropological invention.

Fernando Santos-Granero is a senior staff scientist at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute and a specialist on the Yanesha of Peruvian Amazonia. His books include Vital Enemies: Slavery, Predation, and the Amerindian Political Economy of Life.

Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Prologue
Chapter 1. An Indian Uprising Thirteen Years Later, 1928
Chapter 2. Chronicle of a Revolt Foretold, 1915–1916
Chapter 3. First Signs of Indigenous Discontent, 1910–1914
Chapter 4. Early Years of an Indian Slaver, 1875–1897
Chapter 5. A Struggle for Vitality, 1912–1914
Chapter 6. After the Waters of Youth, 1915–1916
Chapter 7. From War Chief to People-Gatherer, 1921–1929
Chapter 8. Twilight Years of an Old World Transformer, 1930–1958
Epilogue
Notes
Glossary
References
Archives Consulted
Interviews
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	18.09.2018
Verlagsort	Austin, TX
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	481 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-4773-1714-7 / 1477317147
ISBN-13	978-1-4773-1714-3 / 9781477317143
Zustand	Neuware