Indigenous Amazonia, Regional Development and Territorial Dynamics

Chapter 1 Overview of the Indigenous Situation in the Pan-Amazonia Region: A Brief Introduction

Chapter 3 Indigenous Land Rights in Brazil: Challenges and Barriers to Land Demarcation

Chapter 4 Reviewing Amazonian Countries Policies for the Protection of Indigenous Peoples in Voluntary Isolation and Initial Contact (IPVIIC) and Its Implications for Territorial Dynamics and Indigenous Peoples’ Development in Amazonia

Chapter 5 Indigenous Land Management, Ecological Restoration and Ethno-Ecotourism Development: The Environmental Role and Empowerment of the Fakcha Llakta Community in Ecuador

Chapter 6 Ecotourism in the Yanomami Land: A Proposal for Territorial Management and Indigenous Ethnodevelopment

Chapter 7 New Territorialities and Collective Ethnic Identities in the Brazilian Amazon Frontier, Rondonia State: Surui Paiter, Arara, and Gavião Indigenous Communities’ Land Claims and Alternative Cultural Landscapes

Chapter 8 The Process of Tourism Transition and the Tourism Social Contract in Indigenous Territory: The Case of the Nova Esperança Indigenous Community (Rio Cuieiras, Brazil)

Chapter 9 Ayahuasca Lodges in the Peruvian Amazon: A Valid Alternative for Ethno-development?

Chapter 10 Alleluia and the Akawaio: The Spiritual Geography of a Highland Revitalization Movement

Chapter 11 Indigenous Higher Education at Insikiran Institute of Roraima: The Challenges of Social Participation and the Interculturalization of Knowledge in the Northernmost Amazonia

Chapter 12 Indigenous Participation in the Native Seed Market: Adapting Ethnic Institutions for Ecological Restoration in the Southeastern Amazon

Chapter 13 Cosmology as Indigenous Land Conservation Strategy: Wildlife Consumption Taboos and Social Norms Along the Papuri River (Vaupes, Colombia)

Chapter 14 The Non-human Borderlands: Engaging with Ecological Justice and Indigenous Rights in Amazonia

Chapter 15 Biodiversity and Knowledge Associated with the Wapishana People’s Language: An Ethnolinguistic-Territorial and Conservation Case Study in the Amazon

Chapter 16 Amazonia: Indigenous and Environmental Setbacks in Brazil

Chapter 17 Hydroelectric Plants Construction, Rainforest Landscape Change, and Impacts on Indigenous, and Traditional Groups in Amazonia: From Balbina, Tucuruí to Belo Monte Contexts

Chapter 18 Amazonia in Transformation: The Need for Indigenous Empowerment, Innovative Ethnodevelopment Models and Ethnic-Ecological Accountability