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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Gray, Andrew, 1955- Indigenous rights and development. Providence : Berghahn Books, 1997 (OCoLC)644152642 |
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Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Andrew Gray |
ISBN: | 1571818758 9781571818751 1571818863 9781571818867 1571818375 9781571818379 |
OCLC Number: | 36178561 |
Description: | xxi, 354 pages : maps ; 23 cm |
Contents: | Ch. 1. Indigenous Rights from Patio to Palais -- Ch. 2. State and Community in the Peruvian Amazon -- Ch. 3. Losing Control: Arakmbut Territories and Resources -- Ch. 4. Peoples, Persons, and Plurals -- Ch. 5. Knowing Your Place: Cultural Heritage -- Ch. 6. Arakmbut Governance -- Ch. 7. Self-development: An Alternative to the Impasse -- Ch. 8. Self-determination and Arakmbut Decolonisation. |
Responsibility: | Andrew Gray. |
Abstract:
The Arakmbut are an indigenous people in the southeastern Peruvian rain forest who have survived with their culture intact despite encounters with missionaries since the 1950s and a gold rush into their territory over the past 15 years. This final volume of the series looks at the growing consciousn
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"... a solid contribution to the understanding of the relationship between Amazonian notions and contemporary international legal concepts of human rights ... (that) could become a reference text to be used in similar negotiations with other indigenous peoples." * L. E. Belaunde, University of Durham Read more...

