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Resistance in an Amazonian Community: Huaorani Organizing Against the Global Economy

Resistance in an Amazonian Community: Huaorani Organizing Against the Global Economy

Ziegler-Otero, Lawrence

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AnthropologyGeneral SociologySouth American History

ISBN10: 1571814485
ISBN13: 9781571814487
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: Jul 1 2004
Pages: 188
Weight: 0.70
Height: 0.60 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English

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.

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