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Rupert, Bryan S.

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Negotiating the Good Life: Navigating Cultural and Environmental Change in the Lower Napo Basin.

紀錄類型:	書目-電子資源 : Monograph/item
正題名/作者:	Negotiating the Good Life: Navigating Cultural and Environmental Change in the Lower Napo Basin./
作者:	Rupert, Bryan S.
出版者:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2019,
面頁冊數:	330 p.
附註:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 80-12, Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International80-12A.
標題:	Cultural anthropology. -
電子資源:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=13877675
ISBN:	9781392168608

Negotiating the Good Life: Navigating Cultural and Environmental Change in the Lower Napo Basin.
Rupert, Bryan S.

Negotiating the Good Life: Navigating Cultural and Environmental Change in the Lower Napo Basin. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2019 - 330 p.

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 80-12, Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Indiana University, 2019.

This item must not be sold to any third party vendors.

In this anthropological study of the Ecuadorian lowlands, I explore Naporuna (lowland Kichwa-speaking) strategies for confronting cultural and environmental change in the Ecuadorian Amazon. The project centers on the community of Limoncocha, situated at the nexus of a multi-cultural zone shaped by complex historical processes of exchange, colonialism, and conflict. These processes, though unique in their local configuration, reflect themes consistent across indigenous communities in Ecuador and throughout the Americas. Within this context, I examine the tensions between competing desires to maintain cultural continuity and protect the local environment while pursuing greater wage equity and stronger economic and political representation.My approach prioritizes the localized perspectives of community members as key loci for generating strategies for development success and failure. Years of engagement with Kichwa-speaking communities along the Rio Napo culminated in a ten month project in Limoncocha. Ethnography and photography combine with life history to highlight the contradictions that arise for Naporuna and other indigenous communities seeking to navigate a shifting political terrain that is mirrored in the changing landscape of the Ecuadorian Amazon.Drawing thematic patterns from the domains of life that are most relevant to the people living in Limoncocha and its surroundings, I center my analysis on a sequence of dyadic themes that illustrate current concerns within the community: food production and conviviality, highway development and vulnerability, and the sometimes dueling, sometimes complementary knowledge production systems that generate meaning within the communities. Alongside these patterns, I analyze forms of expression that Naporuna and allied non-indigenous activists, artists, and community leaders transmit outward along national and international networks of communications.The resulting analysis demonstrates the paradox between the desirability of development initiatives in the Amazon and the failure of national and international projects to satisfy local communities. From this discussion, the Naporuna emerge as neither victims nor victors, but as agents constrained within bureaucratic systems who strategically mobilize to sustain a way of life that is increasingly vulnerable. This conclusion advocates for a model of development that reframes its priorities not in terms of global indicators but the lived experiences of the people it aims to serve.

ISBN: 9781392168608Subjects--Topical Terms:

2122764
Cultural anthropology.
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