A Future for Amazonia: Randy Borman and Cofán Environmental Politics

Overall it was a good book. Cepek wrote too much on so many things. He kept re-telling the same story. It was very descriptive though. He seemed to be very concerned with accuracy reliability of his findings. This story was great, and how he tied in Borman's little analogies with theory made it rather interesting.

I love it.

Great for an intoductory anthropology course

Good edition, fine handling of order.

Well written and fascinating story about the struggle to preserve an endangered culture.

ugh I had to read the entire book...I am illiterate :(

This book is so strong because it weds deep ethnographic analysis to questions of political mobilization, conservation environmental politics, and resource extraction (all of which are often not thought of as "cultural" even though, of course, they are). Because this is a book that is so attuned to Cofan indigenous logics and forms and practices of meaning, it renders the question of "what does it mean to create an NGO? What does it mean to "conserve nature?" much more complex and thick than is often the case in other ethnographies of environmental politics. It is also supremely clear in its writing and ethical in its goals - to produce a hopeful account of environmental politics in the age of ecological disaster. I recommend it very highly, also for teaching on an undergraduate level!