Resistance in an Amazonian Community

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"Like many other indigenous groups, the Huaorani of eastern Ecuador are facing many challenges as they attempt to confront the globalisation 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.""--BOOK JACKET.

subjects: Civil rights,  Government relations,  Huao Indians,  Organización de las Nacionalidades Indígenas de la Amazonia Ecuatoriana,  Politics and government,  Protest movements,  Race relations,  Self-determination, National,  Social policy,  Treatment of Indians,  Indians, treatment of,  Ecuador,  Ecuador, politics and government,  Organisación de las Nacionalidades Indigenas de la Amazonia

Places: Ecuador