Trekking through History: The Huaorani of Amazonian Ecuador

Raffles, Hugh

doi:10.1525/aa.2004.106.4.774

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“…Many of these forest patches are almost certainly remnants of gardens, perhaps not unlike Borneo's tembawang, that may have once been intensively managed but have since been largely abandoned. Other food-rich plots scattered throughout Amazonia include planted or protected vegetation along footpaths and rivers that are periodically manipulated by passersby, including indigenous groups that continue to seasonally trek following the changing availability of animals or fish, as well as other forest travellers or migrants (Alexiades, 2009;Anderson and Posey, 1989;Kerr and Posey, 1984;Rival, 2002). Many of these patches are further enriched and casually maintained by fruit harvesters, who often take the time to do some selective weeding, cut back intruding vines, or occasionally transplant new seedlings.…”

Section: Building Upon the Management Of Others In The Amazonmentioning

confidence: 99%

3. The Historical, Environmental and Socio-Economic Context of Forests and Tree-Based Systems for Food Security and Nutrition

Parrotta¹,

Pryck²,

Obiri³

et al. 2015

Forests and Food: Addressing Hunger and Nutrition Across Sustainable Landscapes

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Forests and tree-based systems are an important component of rural landscapes, sustaining livelihoods and contributing to the food security and nutritional needs of hundreds of millions of people worldwide. Historically, these systems developed under a wide variety of ecological conditions, and cultural and socio-economic contexts, as integrated approaches that combined management of forest and agricultural areas to provide primarily for the needs of producers and their local communities. Today they serve food and nutrition demands of growing global populations, both urban and rural. Population increase, globalisation, deforestation, land degradation, and ever-increasing demand and associated conflict for land (including forest) resources are placing pressure on these lands. Farmers have been encouraged to intensify food production on existing agricultural lands, by modifying some traditional practices (such as agroforestry) or abandoning others (such as shifting cultivation) that evolved over centuries to cope with biophysical constraints (e.g. limited soil fertility, climate variability) and changing socio-economic conditions. This chapter provides an overview of forests and tree-based systems and their role in enhancing food security and nutrition for rural communities and those served through the marketplace. The variability and viability of these management systems are considered within and across geographical regions and agro-ecological zones. Also discussed is the role of the social, cultural and economic contexts in which these systems exist, with a focus on three factors that affect the socio-economic organisation of forests and tree-based systems, namely: land and tree tenure and governance, human capital (including knowledge and labour) and financial capital (including credit). How these biophysical and socio-economic conditions and their complex interactions influence food security and nutrition outcomes, particularly for vulnerable segments of the population (i.e., the poor, women and children), are of particular concern.

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Section: Building Upon the Management Of Others In The Amazonmentioning

confidence: 99%

3. The Historical, Environmental and Socio-Economic Context of Forests and Tree-Based Systems for Food Security and Nutrition

Parrotta¹,

Pryck²,

Obiri³

et al. 2015

Forests and Food: Addressing Hunger and Nutrition Across Sustainable Landscapes

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“…He would also be monogamous, unlike Shuar and Achuar men from southeastern Ecuador, and he would be in control of his violent impulses, unlike Auca men who were perceived as forest savages who "killed readily" (Muratorio, 1991: 48). There is, thus, a tendency still prevalent among Napo Kichwa to see themselves as more "civilized" than other Amazonian peoples (see, for example, Benitez, 2021;Muratorio, 1991;Rival, 2002).…”

Section: The Research Setting and The Rise Of Indigenous Tourism In T...mentioning

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“All great warriors have long hair”: Tourism and shifting Indigenous masculinities in Napo, Ecuador

Benitez

2024

Critique of Anthropology

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As young Indigenous Kichwa men begin working as local tour guides in the small city of Tena in the Ecuadorian Amazon, they go through complex processes of transition and adjustment navigating entanglements of tourists’ expectations, familial obligations, and desires for socioeconomic mobility. For many, there is the additional challenge of emphasizing their Indigenous identities, given the pervasive anti-Indigenous racism to which they are subjected within Ecuadorian society. I argue that work in tourism has provided young Kichwa men with opportunities for self-transformation, at once attractive and fraught with contradictions. On one hand, they have come to perceive their Indigeneity as an asset rather than a liability and are increasingly able to contest long-standing racism at the local level. On the other hand, their urban lifestyles, pursuit of intimate relationships with foreign tourists and sometimes dismissive attitudes towards rural Kichwa people have distanced them socially from the broader Kichwa population. By exploring these complex affective processes, their impacts on local dynamics, and the multiple and often conflicting understandings of Indigeneity that are constantly being produced and negotiated in these spaces, I seek to broaden the scope of scholarly debates on the impact of cultural tourism in Indigenous communities. I also engage with recent scholarship on Indigenous masculinities to discuss the possibilities and limitations of masculinity as a tool of decolonization for Indigenous peoples.

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“…Similarly, environmentalism is presumed to be integral to Indigenous Amazonian ontologies, as many living things in the forest are constructed as conscious and animate. Yet, animist Amazonian people may just as readily view the forest as generous and abundant (Rival, 2002) as they may view it as dangerous, predatory and illness-inducing (Fausto, 2007), in which case the modern tendency to treat nature as an object may be very appealing (Vilaça, 2016). As Michaela Meurer (2021: 83) argues, political ontologists would do well to start with the contexts and practices in which ontological commitments are made manifest, rather than presuming a priori their political implications.…”

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The Myth of Counter‐modern Ontologies: Indigenous People and the Modern Politics of Extractivism in Ecuador

Tym

2023

Development and Change

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Anti‐extractivist critique still positions Indigenous people as protagonists of counter‐modern political sentiment, whether as opponents of modernity's processes of productive rationalization and economic integration, or as embodying ontologies that reject modernity's conceptual separation of humanity from natural resources. Indigenous anti‐extractivism is thus said to represent a rupture of modern politics in that it exceeds politics as we know it. Yet the calculus of modern politics remains central to Indigenous responses to resource extraction, even in social contexts where non‐modern ontological suppositions are widely adhered to. This is illustrated through an ethnography of Indigenous mining in the southern Ecuadorean Amazon and national‐level electoral data showing the sweeping support of Indigenous people for former leftist President Rafael Correa's ‘neo‐extractivist’ programme. This persistent modernity of Indigenous resource politics exposes the fallacy of projecting counter‐modern sentiments onto Indigenous peoples.

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Trekking through History: The Huaorani of Amazonian Ecuador

Cited by 7 publications

References 4 publications

3. The Historical, Environmental and Socio-Economic Context of Forests and Tree-Based Systems for Food Security and Nutrition

3. The Historical, Environmental and Socio-Economic Context of Forests and Tree-Based Systems for Food Security and Nutrition

“All great warriors have long hair”: Tourism and shifting Indigenous masculinities in Napo, Ecuador

The Myth of Counter‐modern Ontologies: Indigenous People and the Modern Politics of Extractivism in Ecuador

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