The Resource A future for Amazonia : Randy Borman and Cofán environmental politics, by Michael Cepek, (electronic book)
A future for Amazonia : Randy Borman and Cofán environmental politics, by Michael Cepek, (electronic book)
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- "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 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."--
- "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"--
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- xvi, 256 p.
- Label
- A future for Amazonia : Randy Borman and Cofán environmental politics
- Title
- A future for Amazonia
- Title remainder
- Randy Borman and Cofán environmental politics
- Statement of responsibility
- by Michael Cepek
- Language
- eng
- Summary
-
- "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 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."--
- "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"--
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- Cepek, Michael
- Dewey number
- 986.600498
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- F3722.1.C67
- LC item number
- C437 2012eb
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
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- standards specifications
- bibliography
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- Cofán Indians
- Amazon River Region
- Borman, Randall
- Label
- A future for Amazonia : Randy Borman and Cofán environmental politics, by Michael Cepek, (electronic book)
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
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- online resource
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- rdacarrier
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- multicolored
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- text
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- ebr10608358
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- xvi, 256 p.
- Form of item
- electronic
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- c
- Original version note
- Original electronic resource
- Reproduction note
- Electronic resource.
- Specific material designation
- remote
- Label
- A future for Amazonia : Randy Borman and Cofán environmental politics, by Michael Cepek, (electronic book)
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
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- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Color
- multicolored
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- ebr10608358
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- xvi, 256 p.
- Form of item
- electronic
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- c
- Original version note
- Original electronic resource
- Reproduction note
- Electronic resource.
- Specific material designation
- remote
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