The International Amazon

Session Submission Type: LASA Section Presentation

Abstract

The Amazon is often imagined as either a refuge from the ravages of modernity or as a backwater in need of incorporation. Yet as early as the sixteenth century, the promise of natural resources and cities of gold fueled European exploration and the primitive accumulation of wealth. This panel approaches the Amazon as an exemplary site for exploring the uneven development of international capital and cultural relations. Drawing on interdisciplinary methodologies and a wide array of objects, it foregrounds the importance of the Amazon in the effort to rethink the workings of culture and global capital from its so-called periphery.

Sub Track

• Section Sessions

Chair

• Sarah J Townsend, Pennsylvania State University/University Park

Individual Presentations

• Intrusos en el Amazonas: Representaciones y sensibilidades frente al río y la selva en el confín de los imperios - Camilo Andrés Useche

• Viagens Incógnitas’: Representation and Mobility in Euclides da Cunha and Henry M. Tomlinson’s Amazon Writings - Deneb Kozikoski Valereto, Columbia University

• Opera in the Amazon (Redux) - Sarah J Townsend, Pennsylvania State University/University Park

• Amazonia in Ruins: Nostalgia and Critique in Órfãos do Eldorado - Camilo Jaramillo Castrillón

• Na casa yanomami: notas sobre a hospitalidade em A queda do céu - Carolina Correia Dos Santos