Title Resistance in an Amazonian community : Huaorani organizing against the global economy / Lawrence Ziegler-Otero

Published New York : Berghahn Books, 2004 ©2004

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Description 1 online resource (vii, 176 pages) : illustrations, maps Contents History and background -- Onhae : structures and achievements -- Practice and praxis : Onhae in action -- Toward an organizational evaluation Summary 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."-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 166-173) and index Notes A native of Pennsylvania, Lawrence Ziegler-Otero teaches in the Department of Anthropology at SUNY Plattsburgh. After a "first career" as a trade union organizer in the United States, he became an anthroplogist in order to study political, labor and indigenous organizations. He has also lived and worked in Ecuador and Puerto Rico Print version record Subject Organización de las Nacionalidades Indígenas de la Amazonia Ecuatoriana -- History Organización de las Nacionalidades Indígenas de la Amazonia Ecuatoriana Huao Indians -- Politics and government Huao Indians -- Civil rights Huao Indians -- Government relations Protest movements -- Ecuador Self-determination, National -- Ecuador Indians, Treatment of -- Ecuador HISTORY -- Latin America -- South America. BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- General. Huao Indians -- Government relations Indians, Treatment of Politics and government Protest movements Race relations Self-determination, National Social policy Ecuador -- Race relations Ecuador -- Politics and government. Ecuador -- Social policy Ecuador Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 9781782382034 1782382038

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