306 pages
5 illustrations, 1 map
April 2010
978-0-8032-2831-3
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Acknowledgments
Introduction
Frank Hutchins and Patrick C. Wilson
Part 1. Myth, Meaning, Modernity, and Representation
1. Indigenous Capitalisms: Ecotourism, Cultural Reproduction, and the Logic of Capital in Ecuador's Upper Amazon
Frank Hutchins
2. Fractal Subjectivities: An Amazonian-Inspired Critique of Globalization Theory
Michael A. Uzendoski
3. The Portrayal of Colombian Indigenous Amazonian Peoples by the National Press, 1988<EN>2006
Jean E. Jackson
4. Cannibal Tourists and Savvy Savages: Understanding Amazonian Modernities
Neil L. Whitehead
Part 2. Ethnopolitics, Territory, and Notions of Community
5. For Love or Money? Indigenous Materialism and Humanitarian Agendas
Beth A. Conklin
6. Alternative Development in Putumayo, Colombia: Bringing Back the State through the Creation of Community and "Productive Social Capital"?
María Clemencia Ramírez
7. Normative Views, Strategic Views: The Geopolitical Maps in the Ethnic Territorialities of Putumayo
Margarita Chaves
8. Indigenous Leadership and the Shifting Politics of Development in Ecuador's Amazon
Patrick C. Wilson
9. Worlds at Cross-Purposes
Alcida Rita Ramos
Contributors
Index