Resistance in an Amazonian community
Subtitle: Huaorani organizing against the global economy
By: Lawrence Ziegler-Otero
Publisher: Berghahn
Published: 2004
Place of publication: New York; Oxford
Language: eng
Number of pages: 176
Subjects: 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; Ecuador -- Race relations; Ecuador -- Politics and government; Ecuador -- Social policy
Description: "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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [166]-173) and index
Table of contents: title: History and background; title: Onhae : structures and achievements; title: Practice and praxis : Onhae in action; title: Toward an organizational evaluation