Negotiating New Roles and Relationships in the Jungle

Rain Forest Imaginations and Community-Based Ecotourism in Ecuador

Datos Bibliográficos

ID5166701
AutoresAnna Meiser (Trinity University, autor de correspondencia), Eveline Dürr (0000-0002-4714-6627)
Año2014
Volumen12
Número2
Páginas151-168
Fecha de publicación2014-11-02
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
Revista1700-tal: Nordic Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1652-4772 • E-ISSN: 2001-9866
EditorialTrinity University Coates Library - DC Journals (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.70845/2572-3626.1191
OpenAlexW2154466623
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas3
Referencias citadas20

This article scrutinises the impact of ecotourism in Artam, Ecuador, on the Shuar's perception of the rain forest, and consequently, on themselves.The Amazon rainforest, which has always been subject to myriad imaginations and desires, gained new momentum in the context of global discourses on environmental protection, biodiversity and conservation.Taking the Shuar's welcome speech to the tourists as point of departure, we examine conceptions of the rain forest as a "place of intercultural encounter," as "home of indigenous peoples," as "lungs of the world," and show how these notions have been appropriated by the Shuar and integrated in their cultural context.Drawing on fieldwork, we argue that these discourses alter the Shuar's relationship with the rain forest and considerably impact their identity and self-conception.Following an intercultural approach (Rappaport 2005), we find that the Shuar transform themselves in this process from postcolonial subjects into knowledgeable custodians of the forest who are able to represent themselves in new ways on the global stage

Aesthetics · Archaeology · Custodians · Ecotourism · Geography · Indigenous · Jungle · Negotiation · Rainforest · Social science · Sociology · Tourism · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management · Diverse Aspects of Tourism Research · Ecology