Indigenous Rights and Development: Self-Determination in an Amazonian Community [Paperback ed.] 1571818375, 9781571818379

The Globalization of Contentious Politics : The Amazonian Indigenous Rights Movement [1 ed.] 9781317794004, 9780415944267

This dissertation argues that Amazonian indigenous peoples organized via transnational networks due to the domestic bloc

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Human Rights and Community-led Development: Lessons from Tostan 9781474419802

A compelling response to the call for effective community-led models of human development How can we best empower peopl

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Shalom and the Community of Creation: An Indigenous Vision

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The Last Shaman : Change in an Amazonian Community [1 ed.] 9781789204063, 9781571818744

The Arakmbut are an indigenous people who live in the Madre de Dios region of the southeastern Peruvian rain forest. Sin

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The Elusive Promise of Indigenous Development: Rights, Culture, Strategy 9780822392965

An analysis of how cultural rights emerged over self-determination as the dominant legal framework for indigenous advoca

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I Foresee My Life: The Ritual Performance of Autobiography in an Amazonian Community 080323578X, 9780803235786, 9780803205130

I Foresee My Life is a study of the ritual performances of the Kayabi, a Brazilian indigenous people, during the 1990s.

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Resistance in an Amazonian Community: Huaorani Organizing against the Global Economy 9781782382034

Like many other indigenous groups, the Huaorani of eastern Ecuador are facing many challenges as they attempt to confron

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Resistance In An Amazonian Community: Huaorani Organizing Against The Global Economy [1 ed.] 1571814485, 9781571814487

Like many other indigenous groups, the Huaorani of eastern Ecuador are facing many challenges as they attempt to confron

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Amazonian Routes : Indigenous Mobility and Colonial Communities in Northern Brazil [1 ed.] 9780804792127, 9780804787086

This book reconstructs the world of eighteenth-century Amazonia to argue that indigenous mobility did not undermine sett

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Remaking Kichwa: Language and Indigenous Pluralism in Amazonian Ecuador 9781350115552, 9781350115583, 9781350115569

Investigating the efforts of the Kichwa of Tena, Ecuador to reverse language shift to Spanish, this book examines the wa

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