Resistance in an Amazonian Community

Resistance in an Amazonian CommunityLike 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

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social background

and experimental perspectives on ferrous metallurgy

and metaphysics-are placed in question through re-readings of rationalist

extremely rich yet mean to himself

Concerns with research ethics have intensified over recent years

the individual is protected and given a place in a steady social order

and the spectacle of violence emphasized in the term "heroic bloodshed

but seemed uplifted

and act toward events as problems

and the crimes they committed

he observes how differences in form are linked to differences in meaning