A preliminary investigation into the effects of strong missionary influence and oil development on the land use practices of Waorani communities in the Ecuadorian Amazon. – Ciara Wirth, Varsha Vijay and Nicole Scheuneman
Introduction: Participatory GIS, or PGIS, is a system developed in the 1980s to provide a better interface between researchers and indigenous peoples. Today, with the advent of modern GPS technologies, (…)
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There it was – the look, the stares that I got as soon as I entered a place like this following after the Profamilia workers. The look, which seemed to follow me everywhere I went seemed to say“ What is that guy doing here? He’s not from around here? What does he want?” This was a sort of self-constituting othering (…)
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I woke up as the plane approached Cuzco and saw half the passengers straining out of their seats, trying to get a glimpse of something outside the window. “What’s going on?” I asked my seat mate.
“The mountains,” she said. “They’re so high they almost touch the plane.” At that, I too turned in my seat and watched as the city (…)
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