Between the Forest and the Road

The Waorani Struggle for Living Well in the Ecuadorian Oil Circuit

Andrea Bravo Díaz (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

249 Seiten

2023
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
978-1-80539-057-2 (ISBN)

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During the past two decades Ecuadorians have engaged in a national debate around Buen Vivir (living well). This ethnography discusses one of the ways in which people experience well-being or aspire to live well in Ecuadorian Amazonia. Waponi Kewemonipa (living well) is a Waorani notion that embraces ideas of good conviviality, health and certain ecological relations. For the Waorani living along the oil roads, living well has taken many pathways. Notably, they have developed new spatial organizations as they move between several houses, and navigate between the economy of the market and the economy of the forest.

Andrea Bravo Díaz is the Chief Editor of the Ecuadorian Institute of Cultural Heritage and is part of the research team at the Institute of Public Health at the Catholic University of Ecuador. She specialises in Ecuadorian Amazonia, while exploring collaborative methods for addressing health-related issues.

List of Illustrations

Preface

A Note on Waorani Orthography and the Typography

List of Abbreviations

Introduction: Meeting the Waorani

Chapter 1. Living Well

Chapter 2. Healthand Vitality

Chapter 3. The Locus of Living well

Chapter 4. The Extractivist State and Waorani Political Life.

Chapter 5. The Economy of the Forest and the Economy of the Store

Conclusion: And Yet There Will Be More Roads

Appendices

References

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	28.07.2023
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
	Technik ► Elektrotechnik / Energietechnik
ISBN-10	1-80539-057-0 / 1805390570
ISBN-13	978-1-80539-057-2 / 9781805390572
Zustand	Neuware