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Santos Granero, Fernando

Former Smithsonian Tropical Institute Research staff

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Santos Granero, Fernando

Former Smithsonian Tropical Institute Research staff

Native Amazonian leadership and philosophies of power; history of native Amazonian peoples; Amerindian forms of slavery and servitude; tropical American chiefdoms; Amazonian regional economies.

Background And Education

Education And Training

Publications

Selected Publications

  • Article

  • Book

    • Santos-Granero, Fernando. 2021. Vientos de un pueblo: historia y etnografía yánesha. Lima, Perú: Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute/Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú/Centro Amazónica de Antropología y Aplicación Práctica. 2021
    • Santos-Granero, Fernando. 2020. Esclavitud y utopía: las guerras y sueños de un transformador del mundo asháninka. Lima, Perú: Instituto de Estudios Peruanos/Centro Amazónico de Antropología y Aplicación Práctica/Instituto Smithsonian de Investigaciones Tropicales. 2020
    • Santos-Granero, Fernando. 2018. Slavery and Utopia: The Wars and Dreams of an Amazonian World Transformer. University of Texas Press. 2018
    • Santos-Granero, Fernando and Barclay, Frederica. 2015. La frontera domesticada. Economía y sociedad civil en el Loreto republicano (Second expanded edition). Tierranueva Editores. 2015
    • Santos-Granero, Fernando. 2009. Vital enemies: Slavery, predation, and the Amerindian political economy of life. University of Texas Press. 2009
    • Santos-Granero, Fernando and Barclay, Frederica. 2007. Achuar, Candoshi. Panamá and Lima: Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute Instituto Francés de Estudios Andinos. Santos-Granero, Fernando and Barclay, Frederica. Guía Etnográfica de la Alta Amazonía. 2007

  • Chapter

    • Santos-Granero, Fernando. 2022. "Memorias de contagio: estrategias yáneshas ante la Covid-19 y otras epidemias." In Las enfermedades que llegan de lejos: los pueblos amazónicos del Perú frente las epidemias de ayer y la pandemia de hoy. Espinosa, Oscar and Fabiano, Emanuele, editors. 245–260. Lima, Perú: Fondo Editorial Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. 2022
    • Santos-Granero, Fernando. 2018. "Introducción." in Martín de la Riva Herrera, La Conquista de los Motilones, Tabalosos, Maynas y Jíbaros, Volumen II, edited by Santos-Granero, Fernando., 15-56. Centro de Estudios Teológicos de la Amazonía. 2018
    • Santos-Granero, Fernando. 2018. "Slavery as Structure, Process, or Lived Experience, or Why Slave Societies Existed in Precontact Tropical America." in What Is a Slave Society? The Practice of Slavery in Global Perspective, edited by Lenski, Noel and Cameron, Catherine., 191-219. Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316534908.008 2018
    • Santos-Granero, Fernando. 2016. "Masters, Slaves, and Real People: Native Understandings of Ownership and Humanness in Tropical American Capturing Societies." in Ownership and Nurture: Studies in Native Amazonian Property Relations, edited by Brightman, Marc, Grotti, Vanessa, and Fausto, Carlos., 36-62. Berghahn Books. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctvpj7h8p.8 2016
    • Santos-Granero, Fernando. 2016. "Rituals of Enslavement and Markers of Servitude: Orlando Patterson in the American Tropics." in On human bondage: after slavery and social death, edited by Bodel, John P. and Scheidel, Walter., 226-248. John Wiley & Sons Inc. 2016
    • Santos-Granero, Fernando. 2015. "Introduction." in Images of public wealth or the anatomy of well-being in indigenous Amazonia, edited by Santos-Granero, Fernando., 3-34. The University of Arizona Press. 2015
    • Santos-Granero, Fernando. 2015. "Public wealth and the Yanesha struggle for vitality." in Images of public wealth or the anatomy of well-being in indigenous Amazonia, edited by Santos-Granero, Fernando., 89-113. The University of Arizona Press. 2015
    • Santos-Granero, Fernando. 2014. "Cantos de guerra, amor y muerte: la emoción estética y terapéutica del shamanismo amazónico." in Iquitos, edited by Varon Gabai, Rafael., 154-161. Telefonica del Peru. 2014
    • Santos-Granero, Fernando. 2012. "De sujetadorres de bebe a biblias de plumas y de utensilios astronomicos a piedras-jaguar:las multiples formas de ser una cosa en el mundo vivido yanesha." in La vida oculta de las cosas: teorías ind́igenas de la materialidad y la personeidad, edited by Santos-Granero, Fernando., 149-176. Abya-Yala. 2012
    • Santos-Granero, Fernando. 2012. "Introducción." in La vida oculta de las cosas: Teorías indígenas de la materialidad y la personeidad., edited by Santos-Granero, Fernando., 13-43. Abya-Yala. 2012
    • Santos-Granero, Fernando. 2011. "Captive Identities, or the Genesis of Subordinate Quasi-Ethnic Collectivities in the American Tropics." in Ethnicity in Ancient Amazonia: Reconstructing Past Identities from Archaeology, Linguistics, and Ethnohistory, edited by Hornborg, Alf and Hill, Jonathan D., 335-347. University Press of Colorado. 2011
    • Santos-Granero, Fernando. 2009. "From Baby Slings to Feather Bibles and from Star Utensils to Jaguar Stones: The Multiple Ways of Being a Thing in the Yanesha Lived World." in The Occult Life of Things: Native Amazonian Theories of Materiality and Personhood, edited by Santos-Granero, Fernando., 105-127. The University of Arizona Press. 2009
    • Santos-Granero, Fernando. 2009. "Introduction: Amerindian Constructional Views of the World." in The Occult Life of Things: Native Amazonian Theories of Materiality and Personhood, edited by Santos-Granero, Fernando., 1-29. The University of Arizona Press. 2009
    • Santos-Granero, Fernando. 2007. "¿Guardianes del bosque o depredadores egoístas? La filosofía ambiental Yanesha de cara al cambio económico." in Ecología y evolución en los trópicos, edited by Leigh, Egbert Giles, Jr., Herre, Edward Allen, Jackson, Jeremy B. C., and Santos-Granero, Fernando., 619-630. Editora Nova Art. 2007

  • Review

    • Santos-Granero, Fernando. 2017. [Book review] "Upper Perené Arawak Narratives of History, Landscape, and Ritual by Elena Mihas." Tipití: Journal of the Society for the Anthropology of Lowland South America, 15, 101–102. 2017

Editor Of

  • Book

    • Santos-Granero, Fernando. , ed. 2018. Martín de la Riva Herrera, La Conquista de los Motilones, Tabalosos, Maynas y Jíbaros, Volumen II. Centro de Estudios Teológicos de la Amazonía. 2018
    • Santos-Granero, Fernando. , ed. 2015. Images of Public Wealth or the Anatomy of Well-Being in Indigenous Amazonia. The University of Arizona Press. 2015
    • Murra, John V. and Santos-Granero, Fernando. , eds. 2014. Fronteras y diálogos: Andes y Amazonía. Ministerio de Cultura. 2014
    • Santos-Granero, Fernando. , ed. 2012. La vida oculta de las cosas: Teorías indígenas de la materialidad y la personeidad. Abya-Yala. 2012
    • Santos-Granero, Fernando. , ed. 2009. The Occult Life of Things: Native Amazonian Theories of Materiality and Personhood. The University of Arizona Press. 2009
    • Leigh, Egbert Giles, Jr., Herre, Edward Allen, Jackson, Jeremy B. C., Santos-Granero, Fernando, Londoño de Hobrecker, Olga, and Gómez, Nélida E. , editors. 2007. Ecología y evolución en los trópicos. Panama: Editora Nova Art. 2007

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