Nobody Knew Their Names

Alternately hunted and ignored while they were alive, the Tetete were a small group of Western Tucanoan speakers living in the Amazonian borderlands between Ecuador and Colombia. From 1877 through the 1920s, Ecuadorian rubber collectors shot or kidnapped Tetete people whenever they showed themselves. Unlike other groups, the Tetete chose resistance rather than accommodation or slavery. Sometime before 1940, most of the remaining Tetete were apparently killed in a raid by neighboring Siona people. Although three survivors were found in 1966, a persistent legend claims that large numbers were driven to extinction by missionaries and petroleum companies after oil exploration began nearby in 1964. This article reconstructs the final decades of Tetete history beginning with the rubber boom and analyzes their subsequent use by diverse actors in modern political discourse

Ancient history · Archaeology · Boom · Chose · Ethnology · Genealogy · Geography · Legend · nobody · Political science · Politics · Amazonian Archaeology and Ethnohistory · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management · Engineering · History · Law

• Regenerative and restorative pedagogy

  Open Access•Obrillant Damus•Prospects•2024

  Incluir item

• Lt;i>Yo fuí vendida ”

  Open Access•Robert Wasserstrom•Advances in Anthropology•2017

  Incluir item

• Undermining democratic capacity

  Open Access•Susan Reider, Robert Wasserstrom•Ethics in Science and Environmental…•2013

  Incluir item

• Fronteras, poder político y economía gomífera en el Putumayo-Aguarico

  Open Access•Camilo Mongua Calderón•Historia Crítica•2020

  Incluir item

• Violencia política, yajé y estrategias chamánicas en el Putumayo indígena

  Open Access•Pedro Musalem•Maguaré•2022

  Incluir item

• Surviving the Rubber Boom

  Robert Wasserstrom•Ethnohistory•2014

  Incluir item

• Nobody Knew Their Names

  Robert Wasserstrom, Susan Reider et al.•Ethnohistory•2011

  Incluir item

• La etno-etnohistória de los procesos de ocupación y afirmación territorial de los Tucano occidentales del río Putumayo

  Open Access•Camilo Mongua Calderón, E J Langdon•Horizontes Antropológicos•2020

  Incluir item

• Waorani Warfare on the Ecuadorian Frontier, 1885-2013

  Open Access•Robert Wasserstrom•The Journal of Latin American and…•2016

  Incluir item

• Indians and Leftists in the Making of Ecuador’s Modern Indigenous Movements

  Open Access•Marc Becker•Indians and Leftists in the…•2008

  Incluir item

• New Peoples and New Kinds of People

  Open Access•Stuart B Schwartz, Frank Salomon•The Cambridge History of the…•1999

  Incluir item

• Cultural transformations and ethnicity in modern Ecuador

  Norman E Whitten•Cultural transformations and…•1981

  Incluir item

• Adaptive Responses of Native Amazonians

  Raymond B Hames•Adaptive Responses of Native…•1983

  Incluir item

• Advances in Historical Ecology

  William Balée•Advances in Historical Ecology•2004

  Incluir item

• Trekking Through History

  Laura M Rival, Laura Rival•Trekking Through History•2002

  Incluir item

• Towards an Environmental History of the Amazon

  Open Access•D Cleary•Latin American Research Review•2001

  Incluir item

• The People vs. Texaco

  Glenn Switkes•NACLA Report on the Americas•1994

  Incluir item

• The Politics of Ethnicity

  Open Access•David Maybury-Lewis, Ulrich Oslender•Political Geography•2005

  Incluir item

• From opportunism to nascent conservation

  Open Access•William T Vickers•Human Nature•1994

  Incluir item

• The 1992 Indian Mobilization in Lowland Ecuador

  Open Access•Suzana Sawyer•Latin American Perspectives•1997

  Incluir item

• Nobody Knew Their Names

  Robert Wasserstrom, Susan Reider et al.•Ethnohistory•2011

  Incluir item

• Clear Descent or Ambiguous Houses ? A Re-Examination of Tukanoan Social Organisation

  Stephen Hugh‐jone, Stephen Hugh-Jone et al.•L Homme•1993

  Incluir item