Resistance in an Amazonian Community

Huaorani organizing against the global economy

Dados Bibliográficos

ID8092453
AutoresLarry Ziegler-Otero (autor correspondente), Lawrence Ziegler-Otero
Ano2004
Páginas176
Data de publicação2004-07-01
Open AccessNão
TipoBOOK
PeriódicoResistance in an Amazonian community (SOURCE_BOOK)
EditoraBerghahn Books (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.3167/9781571814487
OpenAlexW4400033581
Open LibraryOL17142753M
ISBN9781571814487
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas8

Like many other indigenous groups, the Huaorani of eastern Ecuador are facing many challenges as they attempt to confront the globalization of capitalism in the 21st century. In 1991, they formed a political organization as a direct response to the growing threat to Huaorani territory posed by oil exploitation, colonization, and other pressures. The author explores the structures and practices of the organization, as well as the contradictions created by the imposition of an alien and hierarchical organizational form on a traditionally egalitarian society. This study has broad implications for those who work toward "cultural survival" or try to "save the rainforest

Amazon rainforest · Amazonian · Biology · Geography · Resistance (ecology · Indigenous Health and Education · Civil rights · Ecuador · Government relations · Huao Indians · Organisación de las Nacionalidades Indigenas de la Amazonia · Organización de las Nacionalidades Indígenas de la Amazonia Ecuatoriana · politics and government · Protest movements · race relations · Self-determination, National · Social policy · Treatment of Indians · Ecology · Forestry