Oil is one of the world’s most important commodities, but few people know how its extraction affects the residents of petroleum-producing regions. In the 1960s, the Texaco corporation discovered crude in the territory of Ecuador’s indigenous Cofán nation. Within a decade, Ecuador had become a member of OPEC, and the Cofán watched as their forests fell, their rivers ran black, and their bodies succumbed to new illnesses. In 1993, they became plaintiffs in a multibillion-dollar lawsuit that ...

Este libro analiza tres conceptos filosóficos en lenguas andinas y amazónicas: conocimiento, comprensión y sabiduría. Es el producto de investigaciones interculturales e interdisciplinarias que abordan las distintas maneras como lo andino, lo amazónico y lo occidental se ven unos a otros y a sí mismos. Su propósito es aprender de esas diferencias para conocernos mejor mutuamente, pero también a nosotros mismos. No es, pues, únicamente un libro de académicos investigando lo andino y lo amaz...

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 rain forest territory faced imminent jeopa...