"Becoming Funai": a Kanamari transformation / Luiz Costa -- Variabilities of Indigenous leadership : Ashéninka notions of headship in Peru's Selva Central / Hanne Veber -- The rise of the egalityrant (egalitarian tyrant) in Peruvian Amazonia : headpeople in the time of the Comunidad Nativa / Juan Pablo Sarmiento Barletti -- Guarani cosmopolitics and the world of paper / Valéria Macedo -- Political crisis and cultural revitalization : the "Young Kaypo Movement (Movimento Mebengokre Nyre) among the Mentuktire Kayapo / Terence Turner -- "All together" : leadership and community among the Ashaninka (Brazilian Amazon) / José Pimenta -- Leadership in movement : Indigenous political participation in the Peruvian Amazon / Jean-Pierre Chaumeil -- Gender and political leadership : Indigenous women organizations in the Peruvian Amazon region / Oscar Espinosa -- "The Colonos come in like termites to take our land" : a study of Indigenous leadership, women representatives and conflict in the Bolivian Amazon / Esther Lopez -- "All this is part of my movement" : Amazonian Indigenous ways of incorporating urban knowledge in state politics / Pirjo Kristiina Virtanen -- Shifting leadership legitimation : from heredity to election among the Kali'na (French Guiana) / Gérard Collomb
Summary
"Discusses contemporary forms of leadership in Amazonian Indigenous groups. Examines the creation of Indigenous leaders as political subjects in the context of contemporary state policies of democratization and exploitation of natural resources, and addresses issues of resilience and adaptation at the level of local community politics"--Provided by publisher
