Analogic Alterity: The Dialogics of Life of Amazonian Kichwa Mythology in Comparison with Tupi Guaraní (Mbyá) Creation Stories [PDF]
Tipití: Journal of the Society for the Anthropology of Lowland South America, 2014 Uzendoski, Michael
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Change scenarios in Amazonian <em>Kichwa</em> rural communities, Anzu valley, Ecuador [PDF]
Proceedings of MOL2NET 2019, International Conference on Multidisciplinary Sciences, 5th edition, 2019 Ruth Arias +3 more
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Interdependencies between Indigenous peoples, local communities, and freshwater systems in a changing Amazon. [PDF]
Conserv BiolAbstract Globally, Indigenous peoples and local communities (IPs and LCs) are fighting for the recognition of their knowledge and decision‐making authority in freshwater conservation. In the Amazon, decision‐making around freshwater management and conservation has often overlooked Indigenous and local knowledge (ILK) and the connections between ...
Athayde S +8 more
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Use of community characteristics to predict hunting and game harvests in western Amazonian forests. [PDF]
Conserv BiolAbstract Wild game harvesting in Amazonia provides rural residents with protein and cash income but can threaten wildlife populations and forest ecosystem functions. As yet, the socioeconomic and environmental drivers that shape hunter livelihoods remain poorly understood.
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Weaving the Spiderweb: Mujeres Amazónicas and the Design of Anti-Extractive Politics in Ecuador
Studies in Social Justice, 2023 This article examines the strategic politics of an Indigenous network called las Mujeres Amazónicas (the Amazonian Women) that is resisting the expansion of extractive projects in Ecuador’s Amazon rainforest.
Andrea Sempértegui
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Chicha-Coronavirus: 1-0. On trust, natural disasters, and pandemics in the Ecuadorian Amazon
Mundo Amazónico, 2020 Sarayaku is an Amazonian Kichwa community on the shores of Río Bobonaza, Ecuador. There is no road connecting it to the rest of the country no electricity and no telephone network. I happened to be there on fieldwork during the times of a double disaster:
Leonidas Oikonomakis
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The Trinity of Buen Vivir in Ecuador | La trinidad del buen vivir en Ecuador
Alternautas, 2022 Buen Vivir, as an alternative concept to development (Acosta 2012, Cubillo-Guevara & Hidalgo-Capitán 2015a), emerged in Ecuador at the beginning of the 1990s, with the contribution of some Amazonian Kichwa intellectuals, under the name of sumak kawsay ...
Antonio Luis Hidalgo-Capitan +1 more
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Livelihood alterations and Indigenous Innovators in the Ecuadorian Amazon
Alternautas, 2023 This article approaches livelihood alterations in Indigenous communities of the Ecuadorian Amazon as means of adaptation and resistance to socio-environmental impacts brought along by the expansion of global capitalism.
Rickard Lalander +2 more
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Co-Evolution and Bio-Social Construction: The Kichwa Agroforestry Systems (Chakras) in the Ecuadorian Amazonia [PDF]
, 2017 Polycultured agrarian systems in Ecuadorian Amazonia (also called chakras or swollen gardens) are characterised by a market-oriented crop for the generation of monetary income, for example, cocoa, other agricultural products (e.g., banana and cassava),
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Saving the Other Amazon: Changing Understandings of Nature andWilderness among Indigenous Leaders in the Ecuadorian Amazon [PDF]
, 2016 This article examines a new set of policies embraced by indigenous leaders in the Upper Napo region of the Ecuadorian Amazon, driven, in part, by a growing appreciation for “wilderness” —large areas where humans exercise a very light touch.
Erazo, Juliet S.
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