Table Of ContentThe Latin American Studies Book Series
Walter Leal Filho
Victor T. King
Ismar Borges de Lima Editors
Indigenous
Amazonia, Regional
Development and
Territorial Dynamics
Contentious Issues
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Contentious Issues
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Walter LealFilho Victor T. King
Faculty of LifeSciences Institute of Asian Studies
Hamburg University of AppliedSciences Universiti BruneiDarussalam
Hamburg,Germany Jalan TungkuLink, Brunei Darussalam
Ismar BorgesdeLima
State University of Roraima
BoaVista, Brazil
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Contents
1 Overview of the Indigenous Situation in the Pan-Amazonia
Region: A Brief Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Walter Leal Filho, Victor T. King, and Ismar Borges de Lima
Part I Indigenous Peoples in Amazonia: Territorial Context,
Land Management, and Rights
2 A Voice in the Development of Amazonia: The Constitutional
Rights to Participation of Indigenous Peoples. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Maria Antonia Tigre and Sarah C. Slinger
3 Indigenous Land Rights in Brazil: Challenges and Barriers
to Land Demarcation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Joana Chiavari and Cristina Leme Lopes
4 Reviewing Amazonian Countries Policies for the Protection
of Indigenous Peoples in Voluntary Isolation and Initial Contact
(IPVIIC) and Its Implications for Territorial Dynamics
and Indigenous Peoples’ Development in Amazonia . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
Carlos Antonio Martin Soria Dall’Orso
5 Indigenous Land Management, Ecological Restoration
and Ethno-Ecotourism Development: The Environmental
Role and Empowerment of the Fakcha Llakta Community
in Ecuador . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111
Carmen Amelia Trujillo, Kennedy Rolando Lomas Tapia,
Miguel Edmundo Naranjo Toro, and Ismar Borges de Lima
6 Ecotourism in the Yanomami Land: A Proposal for Territorial
Management and Indigenous Ethnodevelopment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159
Carlos Alfredo Ferraz de Oliveira, AYRCA, and AMYK
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7 New Territorialities and Collective Ethnic Identities
in the Brazilian Amazon Frontier, Rondonia State: Surui Paiter,
Arara, and Gavião Indigenous Communities’ Land Claims
and Alternative Cultural Landscapes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181
José Antônio Souza de Deus
8 The Process of Tourism Transition and the Tourism Social
Contract in Indigenous Territory: The Case of the Nova
Esperança Indigenous Community (Rio Cuieiras, Brazil) . . . . . . . . 197
Ana Rosa Guimarães Bastos Proença and Alexandre Panosso Netto
9 Ayahuasca Lodges in the Peruvian Amazon:A Valid Alternative
for Ethno-development? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223
Ana Gretel Echazú Böschemeier and María Eugenia Flores
10 Alleluia and the Akawaio: The Spiritual Geography
of a Highland Revitalization Movement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239
Daniel G. Cooper
11 Indigenous Higher Education at Insikiran Institute of Roraima:
The Challenges of Social Participation and the
Interculturalization of Knowledge in the Northernmost
Amazonia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257
Maxim Repetto, Maria Bárbara de Magalhães Bethonico,
and Ismar Borges de Lima
PartII IndigenousLandsandPeoples:ConservationandEcological
Aspects
12 Indigenous Participation in the Native Seed Market: Adapting
EthnicInstitutionsforEcologicalRestorationintheSoutheastern
Amazon. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 287
Danilo Ignacio de Urzedo, Robert Fisher, Dannyel Sá,
and Rodrigo Junqueira
13 Cosmology as Indigenous Land Conservation Strategy: Wildlife
Consumption Taboos and Social Norms Along the Papuri River
(Vaupes, Colombia). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 311
Asatrizy-Kumua Yoamara, Carlos A. Hernández Vélez,
Sebastián Restrepo Calle, and Elcy Corrales Roa
14 The Non-human Borderlands: Engaging with Ecological Justice
and Indigenous Rights in Amazonia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 341
Helen Kopnina
15 Biodiversity and Knowledge Associated with the Wapishana
People’s Language: An Ethnolinguistic-Territorial
and Conservation Case Study in the Amazon. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 357
Ananda Machado and Rachel Camargo de Pinho
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16 Amazonia: Indigenous and Environmental Setbacks in Brazil . . . . 375
Rodrigo Machado Vilani and Walter Leal Filho
17 Hydroelectric Plants Construction, Rainforest Landscape
Change, and Impacts on Indigenous, and Traditional Groups
in Amazonia: From Balbina, Tucuruí to Belo Monte Contexts. . . . 397
Ismar Borges de Lima, Aggrey Daniel Maina Thuo,
Helsio Amiro Motany de Albuquerque, Elionete de Castro Garzoni,
MarceloSantosdaSilva,MariaMedianeiraNogueira,VictorT.King,
and Walter Leal Filho
18 Amazonia in Transformation: The Need for Indigenous
Empowerment, Innovative Ethnodevelopment Models
and Ethnic-Ecological Accountability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 421
Ismar Borges de Lima, Victor T. King, and Walter Leal Filho
Editors and Contributors
About the Editors
WalterLealFilho (mult.)Dr.h.c.(mult)isaProfessorandtheHeadoftheResearch
and Transfer Centre, Sustainable Development and Climate Change Management,
Hamburg University of Applied Sciences, and a Professor of Technology at
Manchester Metropolitan University. His professional qualifications include:
CharteredBiologist,(CBiol),RegisteredEuropeanBiologist(EurBiol),Fellowofthe
Institute of Biology (FIBiol), Fellow of the Linnean Society (FLS), Fellow of the
RoyalSocietyofGeography(FRGS),FellowoftheRoyalSocietyofArts(FRSA).
Professor Leal directs the International Climate Change Information Programme
(ICCIP)whichisaleadingprogrammeonclimatechangeeducation,informationand
communication. He is an Honorary Professor at the University of Blageovgrad,
UniversityofRezekne,UniversityofAppliedSciencesZittau-Görlitz andaVisiting
Professor at various other universities. His research interests are on sustainable
development, climate change and renewable energy. He has over 300 publications
amongauthored/editedbooks,bookchapters,paperspublishedinrefereedjournals
and/orpresentedatinternationalconferences.
e-mail:[email protected]
Victor T. King is Professor of Borneo Studies, Universiti Brunei Darussalam,
Emeritus Professor, University of Leeds, Professorial Research Associate, School
of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London and Visiting
Professor, Chiang Mai University, Thailand. He has an MA with distinction
(SOAS) and a BA and PhD (University of Hull, UK) . His research interests have
focusedonsocialandculturalanthropology,specificallyinAsia,andsince2013he
has edited or co-edited eight books and five journal special issues covering
UNESCO World Heritage Sites in Southeast Asia; rethinking Asian tourism;
tourismandmonarchyinSoutheast;therationaleandconstructionofAreaStudies;
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ethno-development;emergingtourisms;Borneohistory,societyandculture;human
insecurities in Southeast Asia; and the global sustainability of nature and culture.
e-mail: [email protected]
Ismar Borges de Lima Universidade Estadual de Roraima (UERR, Brazil),
located in Amazonia. Postdoctoral studies at the Southern Cross University (SCU,
Australia). Director of RECINATUR Foundation in Brazil. Member of the
GIIPS/UTN Research Group, Ecuador. Editor-in-chief of the Recinatur Journal of
Applied Sciences, Nature and Tourism, and Associate Editor of Atelie Journal
(IESA/UFG). Visiting Professor at SCU, and visiting scholar at Inhambane
School of Tourism of the Eduardo Mondlane University (EMU), Mozambique,
and also visiting professor at Universidad Técnica del Norte (UTN), Ecuador. He
is currently the coordinator-in-chief of the MultiAmazon Lab for research in the
northernmost Amazonia. CV LATTES: http://lattes.cnpq.br/1226725450970361
(Portuguese/English).
e-mail: [email protected]; [email protected]
Contributors
AMYK Kumirayona Yanomami Women Association of the Maturacá Region,
Northernmost Amazonia, Amazonas, Brazil
AYRCA Yanomami Indigenous Land Association of Cauaburis River and
Affluents, Maturacá Region, Northernmost Amazonia, Amazonas, Brazil
Ana Gretel Echazú Böschemeier Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte,
Natal, Brazil;
NEIP, Interdisciplinary Center of Studies on Psychoactives, Accra, Ghana;
Department of Anthropology, University of Brasília, Brasília, Brazil
Sebastián Restrepo Calle Department of Rural and Regional Development,
School of Rural and Environmental Studies, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana,
Bogotá, Colombia
Joana Chiavari Climate Policy Initiative/Climate Policies Assessment
Department (CPI/NAPC) of the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro
(PUC-Rio), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
DanielG.Cooper LecturerintheDepartment ofLiberalStudies,California State
University, San Marcos, USA;
School of Geography and the Environment, St. Antony’s College, University of
Oxford, Oxford, UK;
SchoolofAdvancedInternationalStudies,JohnsHopkinsUniversity,Washington,
DC, USA
