Entre retirada forzosa y autoaislamiento voluntario: reflexiones sobre pueblos indígenas aislados y estrategias de evitación en el manejo de conflictos en la Amazonía occidental

Authors

  • Philip Gondecki

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18441/ind.v28i0.127-152

Keywords:

Indigenous Peoples, Conflict, Western Amazon, Andean Foothills, Quijos, Mainas, Napo Runa, Tetete, Waorani, Ecuador, 16th -21st Centuries

Abstract

To recap the history of the western Amazon and the Andean foothills of Ecuador’s Amazon region from a perspective of conflictology, the article reflects on ethnohistorical examples of various indigenous peoples showing avoidance strategies as the modus operandi in conflict management, focusing on spatial strategies of physical avoidance. Analyzing the conditions and consequences, historical continuities and ruptures of various forms of avoidance, covering a historical framework from the early colonial period to the present, the article concludes with perspectives on the current problematical situation of the last indigenous groups remaining between voluntary isolation and forced contact in the region of the Yasuni National Park in the Ecuadorian Amazon.

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Published

2011-01-01

Issue

Vol. 28 (2011)

Section

Dossier

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