Indigenous Amazonia, Regional Development and Territorial Dynamics

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xviii

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2. Overview of the Indigenous Situation in the Pan-Amazonia Region: A Brief Introduction

   • Walter Leal Filho, Victor T. King, Ismar Borges de Lima

   Pages 1-4

3. Indigenous Peoples in Amazonia: Territorial Context, Land Management, and Rights

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 5-5

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   2. A Voice in the Development of Amazonia: The Constitutional Rights to Participation of Indigenous Peoples

      • Maria Antonia Tigre, Sarah C. Slinger

      Pages 7-37

   3. Indigenous Land Rights in Brazil: Challenges and Barriers to Land Demarcation

      • Joana Chiavari, Cristina Leme Lopes

      Pages 39-59

   4. Reviewing Amazonian Countries Policies for the Protection of Indigenous Peoples in Voluntary Isolation and Initial Contact (IPVIIC) and Its Implications for Territorial Dynamics and Indigenous Peoples’ Development in Amazonia

      • Carlos Antonio Martin Soria Dall’Orso

      Pages 61-109

   5. Indigenous Land Management, Ecological Restoration and Ethno-Ecotourism Development: The Environmental Role and Empowerment of the Fakcha Llakta Community in Ecuador

      • Carmen Amelia Trujillo, Kennedy Rolando Lomas Tapia, Miguel Edmundo Naranjo Toro, Ismar Borges de Lima

      Pages 111-157

   6. Ecotourism in the Yanomami Land: A Proposal for Territorial Management and Indigenous Ethnodevelopment

      • Carlos Alfredo Ferraz de Oliveira, AYRCA, AMYK

      Pages 159-179

   7. New Territorialities and Collective Ethnic Identities in the Brazilian Amazon Frontier, Rondonia State: Surui Paiter, Arara, and Gavião Indigenous Communities’ Land Claims and Alternative Cultural Landscapes

      • José Antônio Souza de Deus

      Pages 181-195

   8. The Process of Tourism Transition and the Tourism Social Contract in Indigenous Territory: The Case of the Nova Esperança Indigenous Community (Rio Cuieiras, Brazil)

      • Ana Rosa Guimarães Bastos Proença, Alexandre Panosso Netto

      Pages 197-222

   9. Ayahuasca Lodges in the Peruvian Amazon: A Valid Alternative for Ethno-development?

      • Ana Gretel Echazú Böschemeier, María Eugenia Flores

      Pages 223-237

   10. Alleluia and the Akawaio: The Spiritual Geography of a Highland Revitalization Movement

       • Daniel G. Cooper

       Pages 239-255

   11. Indigenous Higher Education at Insikiran Institute of Roraima: The Challenges of Social Participation and the Interculturalization of Knowledge in the Northernmost Amazonia

       • Maxim Repetto, Maria Bárbara de Magalhães Bethonico, Ismar Borges de Lima

       Pages 257-284

4. Indigenous Lands and Peoples: Conservation and Ecological Aspects

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 285-285

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   2. Indigenous Participation in the Native Seed Market: Adapting Ethnic Institutions for Ecological Restoration in the Southeastern Amazon

      • Danilo Ignacio de Urzedo, Robert Fisher, Dannyel Sá, Rodrigo Junqueira

      Pages 287-309

   3. Cosmology as Indigenous Land Conservation Strategy: Wildlife Consumption Taboos and Social Norms Along the Papuri River (Vaupes, Colombia)

      • Asatrizy-Kumua Yoamara, Carlos A. Hernández Vélez, Sebastián Restrepo Calle, Elcy Corrales Roa

      Pages 311-339

   4. The Non-human Borderlands: Engaging with Ecological Justice and Indigenous Rights in Amazonia

      • Helen Kopnina

      Pages 341-356

   5. Biodiversity and Knowledge Associated with the Wapishana People’s Language: An Ethnolinguistic-Territorial and Conservation Case Study in the Amazon

      • Ananda Machado, Rachel Camargo de Pinho

      Pages 357-373

   6. Amazonia: Indigenous and Environmental Setbacks in Brazil

      • Rodrigo Machado Vilani, Walter Leal Filho

      Pages 375-395

   7. Hydroelectric Plants Construction, Rainforest Landscape Change, and Impacts on Indigenous, and Traditional Groups in Amazonia: From Balbina, Tucuruí to Belo Monte Contexts

      • Ismar Borges de Lima, Aggrey Daniel Maina Thuo, Helsio Amiro Motany de Albuquerque, Elionete de Castro Garzoni, Marcelo Santos da Silva, Maria Medianeira Nogueira et al.

      Pages 397-419

This book brings together a valuable collection of case studies and conceptual approaches that outline the present state of Amazonia in the 21st century. The many problems are described and the benefits, as well as the achievements of regional development are also discussed. The book focuses on three themes for discussion and recommendations: indigenous peoples, their home (the forest), and the way(s) to protect and sustain their natural home (biodiversity conservation). Using these three themes this volume offers a comprehensive critical review of the facts that have been the reality of Amazonia and fills a gap in the literature.The book will appeal to scholars, professors and practitioners.

An outstanding group of experienced researchers and individuals with detailed knowledge of the proposed themes have produced chapters on an array of inter-related issues to demonstrate the current situation and future prospects of Amazonia. Issues investigated and debated include: territorial management; indigenous territoriality and land demarcation; ethnodevelopment; indigenous higher education and capacity building; natural resource appropriation; food security and traditional knowledge; megadevelopmental projects; indigenous acculturation; modernization of Amazonia and its regional integration; anthropogenic interventions; protected areas and conservation; political ecology; postcolonial issues, and the sustainability of Amazonia.

• Indigenous Peoples
• Territorial Management
• Regional Development
• Ethnodevelopment
• Amazon Rainforest and Sustainability
• Environmental Geography

• Faculty of Life Sciences, Hamburg University of Applied Sciences, Hamburg, Germany

  Walter Leal Filho

• Institute of Asian Studies, Universiti Brunei Darussalam, Jalan Tungku Link, Brunei Darussalam

  Victor T. King

• State University of Roraima, Boa Vista, Brazil

  Ismar Borges de Lima

Walter Leal Filho (BSc, PhD, DSc, DPhil, DL, DLitt, DEd) is Senior Professor and Head of the Research and Transfer Centre "Sustainable Development and Climate Change Management" at the Hamburg University of Applied Sciences in Germany. He is also head of the Inter-University Sustainable Development Research Programme, and holds the Chair of Environment and Technology at Manchester Metropolitan University in the UK.

Victor T. King (BA, MA, PhD, FRSA), Professor of Borneo Studies, Institute of Asian Studies, Universiti Brunei Darussalam; Emeritus Professor, School of Languages, Cultures and Societies, University of Leeds, United Kingdom; Professorial Research Associate, Centre for South East Asian Studies, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. From 2006 to 2012 he was Executive Director of the White Rose East Asia Centre, a joint venture between the Universities of Leeds and Sheffield. Prior to that he was severally Pro-Vice-Chancellor, Dean of the School of Social and Political Sciences, Director of the University Graduate School, and Director of the Centre for Southeast Asian Studies, University of Hull, United Kingdom.

Ismar Borges de Lima (BA, MA, PhD, Postdoc) is a professor of the State University of Roraima (UERR, Brazil), located in the northernmost Amazonia, and he has a postdoc at the Southern Cross University (SCU, Australia) where he was also an adjunct lecturer for three years. He is a Ph.D. holder in Geography of the Waikato University, New Zealand. He has a master’s degree in International Relations awarded by the International University of Japan (IUJ). Professor Lima has a vast international academic, teaching and professional experience in many countries: RNTC, in the Netherlands. UNESCAP, Thailand; IUJ in Japan, and he was a visiting professor in Ecuador (GIIPS/UTN) and in Mozambique. He is also the coordinator-in-chief of the Lab for Research on Amazonian Territorial Issues(MultiAmazon/UERR) and director in Brazil of the International Foundation for Research on Science, Nature and Tourism (RECINATUR).

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