Assimilating Otherness: changes and identity conflicts among the Amazonian Indians of eastern Ecuador

Carlos Benítez Trinidad

Universidade Federal da Bahia – Brasil

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Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to show, through oral sources, how modernity and globalization are rapidly gaining ground among the indigenous inhabitants of the Ecuadorian Amazon and how this is affecting the identity and conception of reality of these peoples.


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