Mapping the AmazonPub Date : 2021-06-01DOI: 10.3828/liverpool/9781800348417.003.0002
A. Smith
{"title":"Reading Maps with La vorágine: Cartographic Illusion on the Río Negro","authors":"A. Smith","doi":"10.3828/liverpool/9781800348417.003.0002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/liverpool/9781800348417.003.0002","url":null,"abstract":"Chapter 1 investigates the relationship between José Eustasio Rivera’s service on a mapping commission to chart the border between Colombia and Venezuela and the novel he wrote during the expedition. La vorágine (1924) was not only an extension of Rivera’s political campaign to denounce the state’s approach to the cartography of its frontier zones as negligent, but it is also allowed the author to explore the possibilities of navigating the Colombian Amazon sensorially. In this chapter, the senses become a pedagogy to forestall the violence of official cartographic omissions, but despite this critical intervention in situatedness, the legacy of the novel has involved the perceived exaggeration of Rivera’s descriptions of rubber industry violence.","PeriodicalId":179287,"journal":{"name":"Mapping the Amazon","volume":"29 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123524047","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Upper Marañón, the Summer Institute of Linguistics, and the Nobel Laureate","authors":"A. Smith","doi":"10.2307/j.ctv1nzg2nf.8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv1nzg2nf.8","url":null,"abstract":"Chapter 3 considers the role of Mario Vargas Llosa’s first trip to the Peruvian Amazon with the Protestant evangelical organization the Summer Institute of Linguistics (SIL) in shaping the author’s literary representations of the region throughout his career. The SIL was involved in restructuring Indigenous social geographies by reorganizing the social and physical arrangement of the communities they worked with. The SIL’s plans to unilaterally assimilate Indigenous communities to the dominant national culture through language instruction, catechism, and economics became Vargas Llosa’s framework for understanding the solutions to the region’s problems as well. Though initially sympathetic to the plight of Indigenous Amazonians contending with unfair labour practices, Vargas Llosa later characterizes their resistance to industry in Amazonia as evidence of their short sightedness. Later in his career, the Nobel Laureate would become a strong advocate of deciding for Amazonian peoples in the political sphere, but a close reading of the texts that resulted most directly from his trip with the SIL reveals how he captured evidence of Indigenous Amazonians’ abilities to think, plan, and configure Amazonian spaces for themselves.","PeriodicalId":179287,"journal":{"name":"Mapping the Amazon","volume":"61 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116661949","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Mapping the AmazonPub Date : 2021-06-01DOI: 10.3828/liverpool/9781800348417.003.0003
A. Smith
{"title":"Sensing Like a Shaman, Seeing Like a State: Guayana According to Rómulo Gallegos","authors":"A. Smith","doi":"10.3828/liverpool/9781800348417.003.0003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/liverpool/9781800348417.003.0003","url":null,"abstract":"Rómulo Gallegos’s 1935 novel, Canaima, which takes place in the region known as Guayana where the Orinoco and Amazon river basins overlap, became the name for Venezuela’s largest national park in 1962. Chapter 2 explores how Gallegos manipulated the pan-Indigenous shamanic concept of “kanaima” to construct Venezuelan Guayana as a special place capable of resisting the economic and epistemological homogenization happening nationwide. The chapter describes Canaima as a response to both Venezuela’s incipient oil economy as well as the standardization of the country’s geographic curriculum. The unexpected result of the alternative geography that Gallegos constructs has been the state’s appropriation of “Canaima” as a metonym for Venezuelan autochthony in the national park and beyond. This chapter draws connections among literary geography, cultural appropriation, and Indigenous deterritorialization.","PeriodicalId":179287,"journal":{"name":"Mapping the Amazon","volume":"42 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123694242","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Remains of Modern(ista) Export Routes along the Madeira and the Mamoré","authors":"A. Smith","doi":"10.2307/j.ctv1nzg2nf.10","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv1nzg2nf.10","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter delves deeper into the topic of literary extractivism by examining a novel that focuses on a place where the extraction of rubber and the extraction of material for literary inspiration overlap. Márcio Souza’s Mad Maria (1980) is a historical novel about the construction of the Estrada de Ferro Madeira-Mamoré, a railroad meant to link the Bolivian rubber industry to an Atlantic trade route. The insertion of Brazilian modernista Mário de Andrade at the end of the novel presents a surprising juxtaposition of the infrastructure project and Brazilian modernism. Chapter 5 suggests that both the literary and industrial instrumentalization of Amazonia can produce easily overlooked waste that nonetheless has lasting implications.","PeriodicalId":179287,"journal":{"name":"Mapping the Amazon","volume":"110 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122322399","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Mapping the AmazonPub Date : 2021-06-01DOI: 10.3828/liverpool/9781800348417.003.0001
A. Smith
{"title":"Introduction Mapping the Amazon after the Rubber Boom","authors":"A. Smith","doi":"10.3828/liverpool/9781800348417.003.0001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/liverpool/9781800348417.003.0001","url":null,"abstract":"The introduction outlines the book’s basic premises, its theoretical framework and organization. After the decline of the Amazon Rubber Boom (1850-1920), there was an increase in novels taking place in the region, written by authors who travelled to the Amazonian frontiers of their respective countries. These novels share both a preoccupation with the insufficiency of paper maps for navigating Amazonia and a cartographic impulse to map the region narratively. The introduction describes the geocritical methods applied to understanding how such novels negotiated and contested institutional projections onto Amazonia. A brief overview of spatial theory justifies the claim that those representations participated in the production of a variety of kinds of spaces in the region. The introduction also situates the project’s interventions in a larger body of scholarship on Amazonian literature and cultural production.","PeriodicalId":179287,"journal":{"name":"Mapping the Amazon","volume":"66 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124213429","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Mapping the AmazonPub Date : 2021-06-01DOI: 10.3828/liverpool/9781800348417.003.0007
A. Smith
{"title":"Conclusions","authors":"A. Smith","doi":"10.3828/liverpool/9781800348417.003.0007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/liverpool/9781800348417.003.0007","url":null,"abstract":"The conclusions discuss recent cultural projects in which mapping has served as an important critical lens for Indigenous Amazonians to respond to cultural silencing and erasure. The analysis highlights possibilities for future research into the multimedia formats of cultural mapping emerging from the Amazon region.","PeriodicalId":179287,"journal":{"name":"Mapping the Amazon","volume":"95 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127668960","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Mapping the AmazonPub Date : 2021-06-01DOI: 10.3828/liverpool/9781800348417.003.0005
A. Smith
{"title":"Extractivism in Iquitos: From Rubber to Ayahuasca Literature","authors":"A. Smith","doi":"10.3828/liverpool/9781800348417.003.0005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/liverpool/9781800348417.003.0005","url":null,"abstract":"César Calvo explores the Peruvian Amazon through a shamanic consciousness in his autobiographical Las tres mitades de Ino Moxo y otros brujos de la Amazonía. Like the other authors considered here, as Calvo tells a story of personal adventure, he also relates a critical history of the violence caused by outsiders seeking enterprise in Amazonia. Calvo presents the entheogenic plant-based brew known as ayahuasca as a vehicle to escape colonial ideology and forge a different future for the Amazon, but this chapter proposes that Calvo also replicates some of the manoeuvres that he criticizes. Chapter 4 argues that Las tres mitades’s critique of the material extraction of resources from Amazonia nevertheless becomes an instance of spiritual extraction. I draw connections between the novel and the ayahuasca tourism industry that has expanded throughout the Iquitos region.","PeriodicalId":179287,"journal":{"name":"Mapping the Amazon","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129406343","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"List of Figures","authors":"","doi":"10.2307/j.ctv1nzg2nf.3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv1nzg2nf.3","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":179287,"journal":{"name":"Mapping the Amazon","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117028097","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Conclusions","authors":"","doi":"10.2307/j.ctv1nzg2nf.11","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv1nzg2nf.11","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":179287,"journal":{"name":"Mapping the Amazon","volume":"39 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124697564","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Sensing Like a Shaman, Seeing Like a State:","authors":"","doi":"10.2307/j.ctv1nzg2nf.7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv1nzg2nf.7","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":179287,"journal":{"name":"Mapping the Amazon","volume":"45 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125224858","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}