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The Shifting Middle Ground: Amazonian Indians and Eco‐Politics
Author(s) -
CONKLIN BETH A.,
GRAHAM LAURA R.
Publication year - 1995
Publication title -
american anthropologist
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.51
H-Index - 85
eISSN - 1548-1433
pISSN - 0002-7294
DOI - 10.1525/aa.1995.97.4.02a00120
Subject(s) - indigenous , environmentalism , alliance , politics , identity (music) , convergence (economics) , political economy , political science , tribalism , sociology , ethnology , gender studies , law , economic growth , aesthetics , ecology , economics , biology , philosophy
Over the past decade in Brazil, the convergence between international environmentalism and indigenous cultural survival concerns led to an unprecedented internationalization of local A native struggles. The Indian‐environmentalist alliance has benefited both parties, but recent events suggest that it may be unstable and may pose political risks for native people. The limitations of transnational symbolic politics as a vehicle for indigenous activism reflect tensions and contradictions in outsiders' symbolic constructions of Indian identity.