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This chapter discusses and provides an understanding of localized networks of power by placing Urarina society and forest extraction in contemporary perspective. It shows that the upper Amazon's commercial economies are based on a vast series of exchange relations that link petty commodity producers, like the Urarina, to middlemen, wholesalers, and distributors.
Keywords: localized networks; power; Urarina society; forest extraction; wholesalers; commercial economies; exchange relations; commodity producers
Chapter. 6460 words. Illustrated.
Subjects: Society and Culture
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