Peru: Demonic Trade - Debt, Materiality, And Agency In Amazonia

Peru: Demonic Trade - Debt, Materiality, And Agency In Amazonia Harry Walker, 2012 This article examines Amazonian Urarina engagements with the system of debt peonage in light of the conceptual and ontological premises of the traditional subsistence economy. It argues that to view debt as a mechanism for harnessing indigenous labour is inadequate for comprehending the wilfulness with which Urarina indebt themselves to outsiders today, which should instead be considered in terms of local...

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