Abstract

Review: Laura Zanotti. 2016. Radical Territories in the Brazilian Amazon: The Kayapo’s Fight for Just Livelihoods. Tucson: The University of Arizona Press.

Highlights

  • The Kayapó are no strangers to the international stage

  • Zanotti argues that the Kayapó selectively employ several economic strategies in a way that reduces risk and dependency: swidden horticulture for subsistence, experimentation with nontimber forest projects for market, and selective alliances with conservation NGOs

  • Zanotti joins a long line of anthropologists and activists, who in an effort to encourage more sustainable uses of Thompson – Radical Territories in the Brazilian Amazon Book Review resources against the pernicious influences of large-scale development, call attention to the importance of indigenous environmental strategies

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Introduction

The Kayapó are no strangers to the international stage. Since the mid-1980s, they have become one of the world’s most visible icons of the conservation movement by self-consciously adapting local indigenous values to the discourse and imagery of global environmentalism. Rallying an assortment of conservation groups, anthropologists, rock stars, and purveyors of lifestyle products, Kayapó leaders gained important victories against large-scale mining, energy, and agricultural interests threatening their lands. Zanotti argues that the Kayapó selectively employ several economic strategies in a way that reduces risk and dependency: swidden horticulture for subsistence (chapter 3), experimentation with nontimber forest projects for market (chapter 4), and selective alliances with conservation NGOs (chapter 5).

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