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The Napo Runa of Amazonian Ecuador
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This article is published in Tipití: Journal of the Society for the Anthropology of Lowland South America.The article was published on 2009-01-01 and is currently open access. It has received 22 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Amazonian.read more
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Ecuador's Yasuní-ITT Initiative: The old and new values of petroleum
TL;DR: The Yasuni-ITT Initiative as discussed by the authors proposes a financial mechanism by which Ecuador would be compensated for not exploiting the reserves of heavy crude lying underneath the Yasuni National Park, a Biosphere Reserve for Humanity located in the Amazon Region.
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Contingent Diversity on Anthropic Landscapes
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors demonstrate that the agents of human-mediated disturbance and landscape transformation in traditional Amazonia encode diversity and contingency into their TK, which encoding reflects past cultural influence on landscape and society over time.
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‘Bad Mothers’ and ‘Delinquent Children’: Unravelling anti-begging rhetoric in the Ecuadorian Andes
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine the rhetorics that circulate surrounding the lives of young indigenous women and children who beg on the streets of Quito, Ecuador and reveal how these groups regularly imagine indigenous women in terms of child exploitation/child delinquency, false manipulation of public sympathies, ignorance, laziness and filth.
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Co-Evolution and Bio-Social Construction: The Kichwa Agroforestry Systems (Chakras) in the Ecuadorian Amazonia
Daniel Coq-Huelva,Angie Higuchi,Rafaela Alfalla-Luque,Ricardo Burgos-Morán,Ruth Arias-Gutierrez +4 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the conservation and transformation of their biological subsystems can be understood as the result of complex interactions between anthropogenic and non-anthropogenic factors, and such interactions are essential to provide food and monetary income to the indigenous community.
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Beyond orality Textuality, territory, and ontology among Amazonian peoples
TL;DR: This paper explored the relationship between textuality, territory, and ontology among Amazonian cultures, and specifically the Napo Runa of Amazonian Ecuador, and analyzed the Aycha Yura or "Tree of Flesh" myth and its underlying aesthetic, geographic and ontological qualities.
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Ecuador's Yasuní-ITT Initiative: The old and new values of petroleum
TL;DR: The Yasuni-ITT Initiative as discussed by the authors proposes a financial mechanism by which Ecuador would be compensated for not exploiting the reserves of heavy crude lying underneath the Yasuni National Park, a Biosphere Reserve for Humanity located in the Amazon Region.
Journal ArticleDOI
Contingent Diversity on Anthropic Landscapes
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors demonstrate that the agents of human-mediated disturbance and landscape transformation in traditional Amazonia encode diversity and contingency into their TK, which encoding reflects past cultural influence on landscape and society over time.
Journal ArticleDOI
‘Bad Mothers’ and ‘Delinquent Children’: Unravelling anti-begging rhetoric in the Ecuadorian Andes
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine the rhetorics that circulate surrounding the lives of young indigenous women and children who beg on the streets of Quito, Ecuador and reveal how these groups regularly imagine indigenous women in terms of child exploitation/child delinquency, false manipulation of public sympathies, ignorance, laziness and filth.
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Co-Evolution and Bio-Social Construction: The Kichwa Agroforestry Systems (Chakras) in the Ecuadorian Amazonia
Daniel Coq-Huelva,Angie Higuchi,Rafaela Alfalla-Luque,Ricardo Burgos-Morán,Ruth Arias-Gutierrez +4 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the conservation and transformation of their biological subsystems can be understood as the result of complex interactions between anthropogenic and non-anthropogenic factors, and such interactions are essential to provide food and monetary income to the indigenous community.
Journal ArticleDOI
Beyond orality Textuality, territory, and ontology among Amazonian peoples
TL;DR: This paper explored the relationship between textuality, territory, and ontology among Amazonian cultures, and specifically the Napo Runa of Amazonian Ecuador, and analyzed the Aycha Yura or "Tree of Flesh" myth and its underlying aesthetic, geographic and ontological qualities.