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Creating dialogues : indigenous perceptions and changing forms of leadership in Amazonia / edited by Hanne Veber and Pirjo Kristiina Virtanen.
Penn Museum Library F2230.1.P65 C74 2017
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Indians of South America--Amazon River Valley--Politics and government.
- Indians of South America.
- Community leadership--Amazon River Valley.
- Community leadership.
- Political leadership--Amazon River Valley.
- Political leadership.
- Indians of South America--Politics and government.
- Politics and government.
- Amazon River Valley.
- Physical Description:
- ix, 312 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- regular print
- Place of Publication:
- Boulder, Colorado : University Press of Colorado, [2017]
- Summary:
- "Discusses contemporary forms of leadership in Amazonian indigenous groups. Examines the creation of indigenous leaders as political subjects in the context of contemporary state policies of democratization and exploitation of natural resources, and addresses issues of resilience and adaptation at the level of local community politics"--Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- "Becoming Funai": a Kanamari transformation / Luiz Costa
- Variabilities of indigenous leadership : AshaÌninka notions of headship in Peru's Selva Central / Hanne Veber
- The rise of the egalityrant (egalitarian tyrant) in Peruvian Amazonia : headpeople in the time of the Comunidad Nativa / Juan Pablo Sarmiento Barletti
- Guarani cosmopolitics in the world of paper / ValeÌria Macedo
- The young KaypoÌ Movement (Movimento Mebengokre Nyre) among the Mentuktire KayapoÌ / Terence Turner
- "All together" : leadership and community among the AshaÌninka (Brazilian Amazon) / JoseÌ Pimenta
- Leadership in movement : indigenous political participation in the Peruvian Amazon / Jean-Pierre Chaumeil
- Gender and political leadership : indigenous women organizations in the Peruvian Amazon region / Oscar Espinosa
- "The Colonos come in like termites to take our land" : a study of indigenous leadership, women representatives and conflict in the Bolivian Amazon / Esther LoÌpez
- "All this is part of my movement" : Amazonian indigenous ways of incorporating knowledge in urban politics / Pirjo Kristiina Virtanen
- Shifting leadership legitimation : from heredity to election among the Kali'na (French Guiana) / GeÌrard Collomb.
- Variabilities of indigenous leadership : Ash�aninka notions of headship in Peru's Selva Central / Hanne Veber
- Guarani cosmopolitics in the world of paper / Val�eria Macedo
- The young Kayp�o Movement (Movimento Mebengokre Nyre) among the Mentuktire Kayap�o / Terence Turner
- "All together" : leadership and community among the Ash�aninka (Brazilian Amazon) / Jos�e Pimenta
- "The Colonos come in like termites to take our land" : a study of indigenous leadership, women representatives and conflict in the Bolivian Amazon / Esther L�opez
- Shifting leadership legitimation : from heredity to election among the Kali'na (French Guiana) / G�erard Collomb.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9781607325581
- 1607325586
- 9781607325598
- 1607325594
- OCLC:
- 960641981
- Publisher Number:
- 99974957380
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