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Urarina Society, Cosmology, and History in Peruvian Amazonia University Press of florida Florida A&M University, Tallahassee Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton Florida Gulf Coast University, Ft. Myers Florida International University, Miami Florida State University, Tallahassee New College of Florida, Sarasota University of Central Florida, Orlando University of Florida, Gainesville University of North Florida, Jacksonville University of South Florida, Tampa University of West Florida, Pensacola Urarina Society, Cosmology, and History in Peruvian Amazonia Bartholomew Dean University Press of Florida Gainesville/Tallahassee/Tampa/Boca Raton Pensacola/Orlando/Miami/Jacksonville/Ft. Myers/Sarasota Copyright 2009 by Bartholomew Dean Printed in the United States of America on acid-free paper All rights reserved 14 13 12 11 10 09 6 5 4 3 2 1 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Dean, Bartholomew, 1963– Urarina society, cosmology, and history in Peruvian Amazonia/ Bartholomew Dean. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-0-8130-3378-5 (alk. paper); ISBN 978-0-8130-3838-5 (e-book) 1. Urarina Indians—Material culture. 2. Urarina cosmology. 3. Urarina Indians—Social life and customs. 4. Shamanism. 5. Loreto (Peru : Dept.) 6. Loreto (Peru : Dept.)—Social life and customs. I. Title. F3430.1.U83D43 2009 305.898'085449–dc22 2009019225 The University Press of Florida is the scholarly publishing agency for the State University System of Florida, comprising Florida A&M Univer- sity, Florida Atlantic University, Florida Gulf Coast University, Florida International University, Florida State University, New College of Florida, University of Central Florida, University of Florida, University of North Florida, University of South Florida, and University of West Florida. University Press of Florida 15 Northwest 15th Street Gainesville, FL 32611-2079 http://www.upf.com To my parents, Stella Keeper and Warwick Randall Dean, for the gift of life, and to Luz Angélica, Maxwell Eric Amauta, Isadora Ursula Beatríz, and Gideon Jack Malachi Dean for making this life worth living. “Straying maps the path” Mawlānā Jalāl-ad-Dīn Muhammad Rūmī, thirteenth-century Sufi poet Contents List of Figures xi Acknowledgments xiii Introduction: Power, Belief, Wealth 1 1. The “People from Downstream”: The Chambira Basin and Urarina Society 27 2. Ninichú: Homeland of the Ancients 54 3. Historicizing Amazonia: Domination, Unequal Exchange, and Value Extraction 85 4. Localizing Webs of Power in the Chambira Basin: The Urarina and Forest Extraction in Contemporary Perspective 116 5. “When There Were No Women”: Gender and the Experience of Peonage 132 6. Forbidden Fruit: Affinity and the Economy of Kinship 157 7. Multiple Regimes of Value: Unequal Exchange and the Circulation of Palm-Fiber Wealth 185 8. Mitayo, Myth, and Meaning: Alienation and the Circulation of Urarina Forest Game 207 9. Chanting Rivers, Fiery Tongue: Ayahuasca Shamanism and Resistance in Amazonia 234 Notes 261 Bibliography 273 Index 313
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