Ficha Técnica

Título de la publicación: (Inglés y Español): "Technology in Northwest Amazonia: Sketches from Inside. A contribution to the Political Ecology of Northwest Amazonia".  

Autor o autores: Oscar Forero Larrañaga

Tipo de estudio: Conference: Conservation and Sustainable Development -Comparative Perspectives, CCR-University of Yale. New Haven, Connecticut.

Año de publicación: 2002

Idioma: Inglés

Palabras clave (español, inglés): Political Ecology, Shamanism, Cultural Studies, Indigenous Peoples, NGOs, Amazonia, Tukano, Anthropology, Sustainability.

Dirección de correo electrónico: O.Forero@ic.ac.uk

Título obtenido: Ms. Sustainable Development

ARTÍCULO TEXTO COMPLETO

RESUMEN

It has been argued that political reform and cultural adaptations among indigenous peoples of NWA carry with them an increase in environmental risk. The aim of this paper is to encourage the reader to reflect on the impact of new technologies in indigenous Amazonian communities, through a series of vignettes of cultural responses to the introduction of a video camera introduced into a Northwest Amazonian indigenous village in the 1990s.

The paper describes the context in which the events portrayed by the vignettes took place. This reflects the author perspective on the issue at hand; a process similar to that which a photographer follows when s/he frames something.