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A future for AmazoniaRandy Borman and Cofán environmental politics /

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	A future for Amazoniaby Michael Cepek.
Reminder of title:	Randy Borman and Cofán environmental politics /
Author:	Cepek, Michael.
Published:	Austin :University of Texas Press,2012.
Description:	1 online resource (xvi, 256 p.) :ill., map .
Subject:	Cofán IndiansPolitics and government.
Subject:	Amazon River RegionReligion.
Online resource:	Full text available:
ISBN:	9780292739512 (electronic bk.)

A future for AmazoniaRandy Borman and Cofán environmental politics /
Cepek, Michael.

A future for AmazoniaRandy Borman and Cofán environmental politics /[electronic resource] :by Michael Cepek. - Austin :University of Texas Press,2012. - 1 online resource (xvi, 256 p.) :ill., map .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Machine generated contents note: Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Cofan Possibilities -- Part I: An Individual and a People -- 1. Agency: The Emergence of an Intercultural Leader -- 2. Identity: Collectivity and Difference -- 3. Value: The Dilemma of Being Cofan -- PartII: An Experiment in Indigenous and Environmental Politics -- 4. The NGO: Institutionalizing Activism -- 5. The Forest: Collaborating with Science and Conservation -- 6. The School in the City: Producing the Cofan of the Future -- Conclusion: A Possible Forest -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

"This book tells how an indigenous Amazonian group formed coalitionswith western environmentalists, Randy Borman in particular, to protecttheir cultural identity and traditional territory"--

ISBN: 9780292739512 (electronic bk.)Subjects--Personal Names:

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Borman, Randall.
Subjects--Topical Terms:

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Cofán Indians
--Politics and government.Subjects--Geographical Terms:

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Amazon River Region
--Religion.

LC Class. No.: F3722.1.C67 / C437 2012

Dewey Class. No.: 986.600498

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520 $a "This book tells how an indigenous Amazonian group formed coalitionswith western environmentalists, Randy Borman in particular, to protecttheir cultural identity and traditional territory"-- $c Provided by publisher.
520 $a "Blending ethnography with a fascinating personal story, A Future for Amazonia is an account of a political movement that arose in the early 1990s in response to decades of attacks on the landsand peoples of eastern Ecuador, one of the world's most culturally and biologically diverse places.After generations of ruin at the hands of colonizing farmers, transnational oil companies, and Colombian armed factions, the indigenous Cofan people and their rainforest territory faced imminent jeopardy. In a surprising turn of events, the Cofan chose Randy Borman, a man of Euro-American descent, to lead their efforts to overcome the crisis that confronted them. Drawing on three years of ethnographic research, A Future for Amazonia begins by tracing the contours of Cofan societyand Borman's place within it. Borman, a blue-eyed, white-skinned childof North American missionary-linguists, was raised in a Cofan community and gradually came to share the identity of his adoptive nation. He became a global media phenomenon and forged creative partnerships between Cofan communities, conservationist organizations, Western scientists,and the Ecuadorian state. The result was a collective mobilization that transformed the Cofan nation in unprecedented ways, providing them with political power, scientific expertise, and a new role as ambitious caretakers of more than one million acres of forest. Challenging simplistic notions of identity, indigeneity, and inevitable ecological destruction, A Future for Amazonia charts an inspiring course for environmental politics in the twenty-first century."-- $c Provided by publisher.
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