LEADER 04093nam 2200553Ia 450 001 9910461882703321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-292-73951-6 035 $a(CKB)2670000000273631 035 $a(OCoLC)813844062 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10608358 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000755800 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11409811 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000755800 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10731096 035 $a(PQKB)10570269 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3443618 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse18685 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3443618 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10608358 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000273631 100 $a20120814d2012 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 12$aA future for Amazonia$b[electronic resource] $eRandy Borman and Cofa?n environmental politics /$fby Michael Cepek 210 $aAustin $cUniversity of Texas Press$d2012 215 $a1 online resource (273 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 0 $a0-292-73949-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aMachine 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 -- Part II: 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. 330 $a"This book tells how an indigenous Amazonian group formed coalitions with western environmentalists, Randy Borman in particular, to protect their cultural identity and traditional territory"--$cProvided by publisher. 330 $a"Blending ethnography with a fascinating personal story, A Future for Amazonia is an account of a political movement that arose in the early 1990's in response to decades of attacks on the lands and peoples of eastern Ecuador, one of the world's most culturally and biologically diverse places. After generations of ruin at the hands of colonizing farmers, transnational oil companies, and Colombian armed factions, the indigenous Cofan people and their rainforest territory faced imminent jeopardy. In a surprising turn of events, the Cofan chose Randy Borman, a man of Euro-American descent, to lead their efforts to overcome the crisis that confronted them. Drawing on three years of ethnographic research, A Future for Amazonia begins by tracing the contours of Cofan society and Borman's place within it. Borman, a blue-eyed, white-skinned child of North American missionary-linguists, was raised in a Cofan community and gradually came to share the identity of his adoptive nation. He became a global media phenomenon and forged creative partnerships between Cofan communities, conservationist organizations, Western scientists, and the Ecuadorian state. The result was a collective mobilization that transformed the Cofan nation in unprecedented ways, providing them with political power, scientific expertise, and a new role as ambitious caretakers of more than one million acres of forest. Challenging simplistic notions of identity, indigeneity, and inevitable ecological destruction, A Future for Amazonia charts an inspiring course for environmental politics in the twenty-first century."--$cProvided by publisher. 606 $aCofa?n Indians$xPolitics and government 607 $aAmazon River Region$xEnvironmental conditions 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aCofa?n Indians$xPolitics and government. 676 $a986.600498 700 $aCepek$b Michael$0893997 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910461882703321 996 $aA future for Amazonia$91997062 997 $aUNINA