Huaorani of the Western Snippet - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Huaorani of the Western Snippet write by Aleksandra Wierucka. This book was released on 2016-04-08. Huaorani of the Western Snippet available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Huaorani of the Western Snippet documents changes that the Huaorani culture of eastern Ecuador underwent over a period of fifty years. Part I focuses on the geographical, historical, sociological and economical background of the Ecuadorian Amazon as well as the problems that indigenous groups of this region face. Part II describes different aspects of Huaorani culture, and its consecutive subsections present research completed by anthropologists in different decades of twentieth century, and the data is reviewed and supplemented with data gathered during my research (2007-2013). Part III explores the life of a Huao man, Miñe, who serves as a local shaman. His different social roles are discussed in consecutive subsections in order to understand what shaped him as a person of the Huaorani group.
The Amazonian “Other”
The Amazonian “Other” - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Amazonian “Other” write by Aleksandra Wierucka. This book was released on 2024-08-07. The Amazonian “Other” available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book explores representations of Amazonian Indigenous peoples in contemporary cultural texts. It analyzes a variety of mediums from novels and films to games and exhibitions, uncovering a distorted image of Indigenous peoples of the Amazon in Euro-American common imagination. The author suggests that these texts rely on a stereotypical vision that was shaped in the first decades of colonization. The chapters consider the formation of the image of Amazonian Indigenous people throughout history and some of the contemporary issues they face, touching on daily life and themes such as shamanism and cannibalism. Together they highlight the misrepresented image of Indigenous groups in the Amazon, who are portrayed as different, even strange, in relation to Western culture. The argument put forward is that both “exotic” and “self-exoticization” rely on the notion of otherness, leading to romanticization, patronization, and caricature. The book will be of particular interest to scholars of Indigenous studies, Latin American studies, cultural studies, anthropology, and comparative literature.
Between the Forest and the Road
Between the Forest and the Road - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Between the Forest and the Road write by Andrea Bravo Díaz. This book was released on 2023-09-15. Between the Forest and the Road available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. During the past two decades Ecuadorians have engaged in a national debate around Buen Vivir (living well). This ethnography discusses one of the ways in which people experience well-being or aspire to live well in Ecuadorian Amazonia. Waponi Kewemonipa (living well) is a Waorani notion that embraces ideas of good conviviality, health and certain ecological relations. For the Waorani living along the oil roads, living well has taken many pathways. Notably, they have developed new spatial organizations as they move between several houses, and navigate between the economy of the market and the economy of the forest.
Amazonian Kichwa of the Curaray River
Amazonian Kichwa of the Curaray River - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Amazonian Kichwa of the Curaray River write by Mary-Elizabeth Reeve. This book was released on 2022. Amazonian Kichwa of the Curaray River available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This ethnography explores ways in which Amazonian Kichwa narrative, ritual, and concepts of place link extended kin groups into a regional society within Amazonian Ecuador.
Crude Chronicles
Crude Chronicles - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Crude Chronicles write by Suzana Sawyer. This book was released on 2004-06-07. Crude Chronicles available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Ecuador is the third-largest foreign supplier of crude oil to the western United States. As the source of this oil, the Ecuadorian Amazon has borne the far-reaching social and environmental consequences of a growing U.S. demand for petroleum and the dynamics of economic globalization it necessitates. Crude Chronicles traces the emergence during the 1990s of a highly organized indigenous movement and its struggles against a U.S. oil company and Ecuadorian neoliberal policies. Against the backdrop of mounting government attempts to privatize and liberalize the national economy, Suzana Sawyer shows how neoliberal reforms in Ecuador led to a crisis of governance, accountability, and representation that spurred one of twentieth-century Latin America’s strongest indigenous movements. Through her rich ethnography of indigenous marches, demonstrations, occupations, and negotiations, Sawyer tracks the growing sophistication of indigenous politics as Indians subverted, re-deployed, and, at times, capitulated to the dictates and desires of a transnational neoliberal logic. At the same time, she follows the multiple maneuvers and discourses that the multinational corporation and the Ecuadorian state used to circumscribe and contain indigenous opposition. Ultimately, Sawyer reveals that indigenous struggles over land and oil operations in Ecuador were as much about reconfiguring national and transnational inequality—that is, rupturing the silence around racial injustice, exacting spaces of accountability, and rewriting narratives of national belonging—as they were about the material use and extraction of rain-forest resources.
