Indigenous Networks and Evangelical Frontiers : Problems With Governance and Ethics in Cases of 'Voluntary Isolation' in Contemporary Amazonia / Marc Brightman, Vanessa Grotti.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Brightman, Marc, author.

Grotti, Vanessa, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Anthropology.

Cultural property.

Culture--Study and teaching.

Culture.

Human geography.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (XXXVIII, 257 pages 23 illustrations, 7 illustrations in color.)

Edition:

First edition, 2017.

Place of Publication:

Springer Nature 2017

London : Springer Open, 2017.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The periodic emergence of indigenous peoples living in voluntary isolation in Amazonia have given rise to sensational media reports and heated academic debate. In this chapter we describe briefly the historical and contemporary relations between indigenous peoples in and out of isolation in the Guiana Shield region of North-eastern South America and discuss the role of indigenous missionaries in histories of contact. After considering these facts in relation to some of the general debates about isolated peoples and policy, we assess the ethical dimensions of the question of emergence from isolation.

Contents:

Introduction: Hunter-Gatherers in a Fast Changing World

Part I: The Historical Legacy

1. The Fortunes of Foragers in Colonial and Post-Colonial New Guinea

2. When is a Foraging Society? The Loplik in the Tarim Basin

Part II: Environmental Change

3. Trailing Forest Uses Among the Punan Tubu of North Kalimantan, Indonesia

4. Bushmeat Crisis, Forestry Reforms and Contemporary Hunting Among Central African Forest Hunters

5. Defaunation Through the Eyes of the Tsimane’

6. The Death of the Chief of Peccaries: The Apurinã and the Scarcity of Forest Resources in Brazilian Amazonia

Part III: Changes in Economic, Political and Legal Systems

7. Why Pumé Foragers Retain a Hunting and Gathering Way of Life on a Transitional Landscape

8. Sharing in a Context of Rural Development. A Study Among a Contemporary Hunter-Gatherer Society in Indonesia

9. Hunter-Gatherers and Fishing Rights in Alaska and Siberia: Contemporary Governmentality, Subsistence, and Sustainable Enterprises

Part IV: Globalization and Cultural Change

10. Indigenous Networks and Evangelical Frontiers: Problems with Governance Ethics in Cases of ‘Voluntary Isolation’ in Contemporary Amazonia

11. 'Like Father, Like Son'? Baka Children’s Local Ecological Knowledge Learning in a Context of Cultural Change

12. Persistence and Change in Infant Care among Aka Foragers

13. Globalized Conflicts, Globalized Responses. Changing Manners of Contestation Among Indigenous Communities.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

CC BY

Description based on print version record.

Contains:

Indigenous Networks and EvangelicalFrontiers: Problems with Governance andEthics in Cases of ‘Voluntary Isolation’in Contemporary Amazonia.

ISBN:

9783319422718

3319422715

OCLC:

1163850309