Editing Eden: A Reconsideration of Identity, Politics, and Place in Amazonia

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Acuña, Cristóbal de, xii–xiii, xiv “aesthetic of extremes,” xvi agriculture: and agrarian reform, 225; and alternative development projects, 151–52, 164, 165–66, 174–83, 184, 194; and community associations, xix, 151–52, 176–80; on Dominica, 112, 114 alternative development projects, xxvi–xxvii, 4; and agribusiness, 151–53, 159–61, 164, 174–83, 184, 194; and indigenous leadership, xxviii–xxix, 17–18, 174–79, 182, 183–84; and ngos, 151–52, 169–72, 175–85, 219–21; and Plan Colombia, 152, 156–61, 182–83, 185; and social capital, 161–65, 169–72, 180–81, 184; state sponsorship of, 166–69, 171, 182–83 “alternative modernity,” 59–60. See also modernity Amazon warrior women, xii, 92–93 American Indian Movement, 113 anchorages, territorial, 199–201, 203–5 Andean Nasa, 80 Andean Regional Initiative, 157 animals, 43–46, 47–49, 51–53 anthropology, 54–55, 107–10, 115, 120–22, 132 Appadurai, Arjun, 38–39, 40–41, 212–13 Arawak people, 119–20, 254 Ashéninka people, 25 Asociación Porcícola El Espinal (apes), 151–52 Association of Pork Producers El Espinal. See Asociación Porcícola El Espinal (apes) Baños, Ecuador, 16 Barco, Virgilio, 84–85, 86–87, 90–91, 94 Bashkow, Ira, 60–61 Betancur, Belisario, 95 Bonpland, Aimé, xiii Bororo people, 42–43 boundary crossing, 60–61, 204 Bravo, Marcela, 85 Index 266 index Brazil, 136, 253, 255–56; and the Bororo people, 42–43; indigenous social movements in, 135, 223, 256; media in, 71; and “pacification” (“attraction”), 251–52; and the Panará Indians, 247–48 Bucaram, Abdalá, 237 buen vivir, 10 Buitrago, Francy, 91, 94 Bush, George W., 157, 163–64 cabildos (councils), 74, 80, 85, 90, 197, 201, 214n3, 214n5 Caja de Compensación Familiar. See Fund for Family Compensation Campo en Acción, 182–83. See also Plan Colombia Canadian Fund for Ecuadorian Development (fecd), 235–36 Cañari Indians, 16–17 Canelos Kichwa. See Kichwa cannibalism, 106–7, 111, 120–21 Capirona, Ecuador, 3, 4, 20, 34 capitalism: and globalization, 8, 28, 115–17, 130–31; history of, 28–29, 41, 65n3; indigenous responses to, xxiv–xxv, xxviii, 4–5, 6–7, 30, 39, 64, 115, 130–32, 133 Cardoso de Oliveira, Roberto, 256 Carib people, 110–15, 119–20, 122n1 Carvajal, Gaspar de, xii, xiv ceremonial dress. See clothing, indigenous Chakrabarty, Dipesh, 6–7, 27–29, 65n3 Chemonics International Inc., 170–72, 174–76, 178, 186n1; mission of, 152; and social capital, 161, 164–65, 169, 171, 179, 180–84; and usaid funds, 160 Clastres, Pierre, 42, 231, 243n2 Clinton, Bill, 157–58, 163–64 clothing, indigenous, 83, 95, 96, 133 coca: cultivation of, 152–55, 158–59, 165–69, 187n12, 194–95, 249; eradication of, xxvi, 152, 157, 158, 159–61, 163–64, 167, 174–76, 180, 186nn8–10, 193, 194; media representations of, 88. See also drug trade Cocama people, 46–47 Colombia: and alternative development agribusiness projects, 151–52, 164, 165–66, 174–83, 184, 194; armed conflict in, xxi–xxii, 76, 78–81, 89–90, 98, 154, 155, 167, 194–96; coca cultivation in, 152–55, 158–60, 163–64, 165–67, 187n12, 194–95; colonization of Amazon territory in, 154–55; constitutional reform in, 74, 75–76, 214n5; departments (politico-administrative units) of, 72, 152, 186n4, 201; displacement in, xxi–xxii, 76, 89, 155, 192–93, 195–96, 206–9, 210; ethnic recognition in, xx, 191–92, 193, 196–201, 203–9; land ownership in, 75, 154–55; media in, xxii, 70–73, 76–91, 93–99, 118, 154; narcotrafficking in, 79, 153, 154–58, 162–64, 166–67, 181, 186n8; and nation-building, 74, 84; ngos in, 169–72, 175–85, 186n1; population of, 73–74, 185; and resguardo system, xxi–xxii, 75, 195, 201, 203–5, 208–10, 214n3, 214nn5–7, 215n8; and state corruption, 74, 86, 98–99, 100n5, 166–67, 170, 171; storytelling in, 39, 43–46; veredas in, 172–74, 175–79, 184 Colombia Alternative Development Program (cad), 175, 179–80, 183–84 Colombian Antinarcotics Police (diran), 154 colonialism, xxiv, 107, 119–22, 257n2; and acculturation through commodities , xiv, 131–32; and territorial boundaries, 252–53, 254–55; and tourism, 109, 110–12, 113–14, 115 colonos, 55, 85, 153–55, 166, 214n1 Columbus, Christopher, 110, 111, 119 commercial goods, 131–33, 134, 143– 44, 147–48, 246–52 267 index commodification: of culture, xxvii...