Abstract
In this paper the process of emergence of various indigenous organizations in the Amazon area -in the last two decades- is analyzed, and an attempt is made to find the axis common to both of them and the overall society which endoses them. Ethnic elements are thus conceived in a dynamic way, enrolled with the various influences of a historical, economic, and political process to which they already belong, but, at the same time, they try to maintain a space through which their continuity and their claims may be channeled. As the reader will see, these are not Indian ghettoes built over an ethno-populist discourse, or an ethnic one, but rather a relative adjustment to contemporary circumstances, one not exempt from contradictions and empty spaces, and which, according to the author, exhibit the socio-cultural and political vitality of the jungle ethnic groups. Kinship, ecology, and legal data, are all part of this dynamic which flows over the background of the Peruvian economic system.
Translated title of the contribution | Policy of survival: the organizations of indigenous peoples of the peruvian amazon |
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Original language | Spanish |
Pages (from-to) | 105-119 |
Journal | Apuntes |
Issue number | 20 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Jan 1987 |
Keywords
- Grupos étnicos
- Indígenas
- Minorías étnicas
- Perú