Projektnummer

0069532

Zusammenfassung

In the Amazon basin, even protected areas and indigenous lands face increasing threats from agro-industrial, gold-mining and infrastructure expansion or climate change. This encourages indigenous societies to affirm or recreate their ethnicity and cultural expressions.This project aims to analyse the complexities of cultural heritage and their relationship with perceptions of time and space, local knowledge, and territorial defense among three Indigenous Peoples in the Bolivian (Tacana and T'simane) and Brazilian (Waiwai) Amazon. The three case studies address the broad issue of herita...