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Author Eisenberg, Amy, 1954-

Title Aymara Indian perspectives on development in the Andes / Amy Eisenberg
Published Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, [2013]
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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 263 pages) : illustrations, maps
Contents The Aymara : pre- and post-Columbian history -- The Aymara community today -- Jaqin Uraqpachat Amuyupa : Aymara cosmovision -- The Aymara cultural landscape -- Social and environmental impact assessment -- Aymara responses to a changing environment -- Conclusion
Summary Aymara Indians are a geographically isolated Indigenous people living in the Andes Mountains near Chile's Atacama Desert, one of the most arid regions of the world. As rapid economic growth in the area has begun to divert scarce water to hydroelectric and agricultural projects, the Aymara struggle to maintain their sustainable and traditional systems of water use, agriculture, and pastoralism. In this book, the author provides a detailed exploration of the ethnoecological dimensions of the tension between the Aymara, whose economic, spiritual, and social life are inextricably tied to land and water, and three major challenges: the paving of Chile Highway 11, the diversion of the Altiplano waters of the Río Lauca for irrigation and power-generation, and Chilean national park policies regarding Aymara communities, their natural resources, and cultural properties within Parque Nacional Lauca, the International Biosphere Reserve
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-246) and index
Notes English
Online resource; title from digital title page (EBL platform, viewed May 5, 2014)
Subject Aymara Indians -- History
Aymara cosmology.
Aymara Indians -- Social conditions
Ethnoecology -- Chile
Rural development -- Chile
Economic development -- Chile
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
Aymara cosmology
Aymara Indians
Aymara Indians -- Social conditions
Ecology
Economic development
Ethnoecology
Rural development
SUBJECT Chile -- Environmental conditions
Subject Chile
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2012043130
ISBN 9780817386665
0817386661