Social Anthropologist
Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute
Unit 0948
APO AA 34002-0948
santosf@tivoli.si.edu
Research Interests
Social anthropology; Amazonian history and ethnohistory; Amazonian regional economies; Amazonian indigenous societies and cultures.
Current Research Projects
At present I am doing research on a project titled "Captives, Servants, and Vassals: A Historical Ethnography of Native Slavery in the American Tropics." During the past two years I have been working at the Library of Congress, collecting historical information on eight indigenous societies of tropical regions of South America, North America and the Caribbean. The project entails examining native forms of "slavery" as found by early European agents in relation to indigenous modes of sociality and political leadership.
Recent Publications
2003 El enemigo interno. Hechicería infantil, insurgencia, y los males de la modernidad en la Amazonía Peruana. Revista Andina 36:161-192. (Peru)
2002a Comparative Arawakan Histories: Rethinking Language Family and Culture Area in Amazonia. Urbana: University of Illinois Press. (co-edited with Jonathan D. Hill)
2002b The Arawakan Matrix: Ethos, Language, and History in Native South America.
In Jonathan D. Hill and Fernando Santos-Granero (eds.), Comparative Arawakan
Histories: Rethinking Language Family and Culture Area in Amazonia, pp. 25-50.
Urbana: University of Illinois Press.
2002c La frontera domesticada. Economía y sociedad civil en el Loreto
republicano. Lima: Fondo Editorial de la Pontificia Universidad Católica
del Perú. (co-authored with Frederica Barclay)
2002d Boundaries are Made to be Crossed: The Magic and Politics of the Long-lasting Amazon/Andes Divide. Identities 9(4):545-569.
2002e St. Christopher in the Amazon: Child Sorcery, Colonialism, and Violence among the Southern Arawak. Ethnohistory 49(3):507-543.
2000a Tamed Frontiers. Economy, Society, and Civil Rights in Upper Amazonia. Boulder, CO: Westview Press. (co-authored with Frederica Barclay)
2000b Guía etnográfica de la alta Amazonía. Volume 3: Cashinahua, Amahuaca, Shipibo-Conibo. Quito: Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute/Instituto Francés de Estudios Andinos/Abya-Yala. (co-edited with Frederica Barclay)
2000c The Sisyphus Syndrome or the Struggle for Conviviality in Native Amazonia. In Joanna Overing and Alan Passes (eds.), The Anthropology of Love and Anger. The Aesthetics of Conviviality in Native Amazonia, pp. 268-287. New York: Routledge.