Future for Amazonia Randy Borman and Cofï¿½n Environmental Politics

Name: Future for Amazonia Randy Borman and Cofï¿½n Environmental Politics
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ISBN: 9780292739505

ISBN-10: 0292739508

ISBN-13: 9780292739505

Edition: 2012

Authors: Michael L. Cepek

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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 Cofán people and their rainforest territory faced imminent jeopardy. In a surprising turn of events, the Cofán 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…

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List price: $24.95
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Publication date: 11/1/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 272
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.70" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English

Michael L. Cepek is an associate professor of anthropology at the University of Texas at San Antonio. He is a board member of the Cofï¿½n Survival Fund, a US nonprofit that supports the Fundaciï¿½n Sobrevivencia Cofï¿½n, a Cofï¿½n-directed environmental and human rights organization, and the author of A Future for Amazonia: Randy Borman and Cofï¿½n Environmental Politics.