Outputs (5)

Placing Wellbeing: Anthropological Perspectives on Wellbeing and Place (2016)
Journal Article
Ferraro, E., & Sarmiento Barletti, J. P. (2016). Placing Wellbeing: Anthropological Perspectives on Wellbeing and Place. Anthropology in Action: Journal for Applied Anthropology in Policy and Practice, 23(3), 1-5. https://doi.org/10.3167/aia.2016.230301

In this thematic issue we offer anthropologically-informed snapshots of the different forms that wellbeing takes when approached from place-based perspectives. We are interested in highlighting and engaging with the undermining of place in the litera... Read More about Placing Wellbeing: Anthropological Perspectives on Wellbeing and Place.

The Angry Earth: Wellbeing, Place, and Extractivism in the Amazon (2016)
Journal Article
Sarmiento Barletti, J. P. (2016). The Angry Earth: Wellbeing, Place, and Extractivism in the Amazon. Anthropology in Action: Journal for Applied Anthropology in Policy and Practice, 23(3), 43-53. https://doi.org/10.3167/aia.2016.230305

In this article, I argue for a broadening of the conceptualisation of wellbeing in the scholarly and policy literature on the topic. I do so as, despite the calls for the inclusion of place in analyses of wellbeing, the literature on the topic still... Read More about The Angry Earth: Wellbeing, Place, and Extractivism in the Amazon.

La comunidad en los tiempos de la Comunidad: bienestar en las Comunidades Nativas asháninkas (2016)
Journal Article
Sarmiento Barletti, J. P. (2016). La comunidad en los tiempos de la Comunidad: bienestar en las Comunidades Nativas asháninkas. Bulletin de l'Institut Français d'Etudes Andines, 45(1), 157-172. https://doi.org/10.4000/bifea.7904

El presente artículo estudia las diferencias críticas que los asháninkas, miembros de la sociedad indígena más grande de la Amazonía peruana, encuentran entre la Comunidad Nativa como una entidad política, y la comunidad compuesta de asháninka sanori... Read More about La comunidad en los tiempos de la Comunidad: bienestar en las Comunidades Nativas asháninkas.

“It Makes Me Sad When They Say We Are Poor. We Are Rich!”: Of Wealth and Public Wealth(s) in Indigenous Amazonia (2015)
Book Chapter
Sarmiento Barletti, J. P. (2015). “It Makes Me Sad When They Say We Are Poor. We Are Rich!”: Of Wealth and Public Wealth(s) in Indigenous Amazonia. In F. Santos-Granero (Ed.), Images of public wealth or the anatomy of well-being in indigenous Amazonia (139-160). University of Arizona Press

Finding out what public wealth is in legal terms in indigenous Peruvian Amazonia is simple. The Ley de Comunidades Nativas (Law of Native Communities) states that all comuneros, the legal members of a comunidad , have collective usufruct rights over... Read More about “It Makes Me Sad When They Say We Are Poor. We Are Rich!”: Of Wealth and Public Wealth(s) in Indigenous Amazonia.

Of Tobacco and Well-Being in Indigenous Amazonia (2015)
Book Chapter
Sarmiento Barletti, J. P. (2015). Of Tobacco and Well-Being in Indigenous Amazonia. In A. Russell, & E. Rahman (Eds.), The master plant : tobacco in lowland South America (183-198). Bloomsbury Academic