Creating Dialogues : Indigenous Perceptions and Changing Forms of Leadership in Amazonia.

Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I. Indigenous Perceptions of Leadership -- 1. "Becoming Funai": A Kanamari Transformation -- 2. Variabilities of Indigenous Leadership: Asháninka Notions of Headship in Peru's Selva Central -- 3. The Rise of the Egalityrant (Egalitarian Tyrant) in Peruvian Amazonia: Headpeople in the Time of the Comunidad Nativa -- 4. Guarani Cosmopolitics in the World of Paper -- Part II. Changing Styles of Leadership in Lowland South America -- 5. The Young Kayapó Movement (Movimento Mebengokre Nyre) among the Mentuktire Kayapó -- 6. "All Together": Leadership and Community among the Asháninka (Brazilian Amazon) -- 7. Leadership in Movement: Indigenous Political Participation in the Peruvian Amazon -- 8. Gender and Political Leadership: Indigenous Women Organizations in the Peruvian Amazon Region -- Part III. Amazonian Indigenous Actors in State Politics -- 9. "The Colonos Come in Like Termites to Take Our Land": A Study of Indigenous Leadership, Women Representatives, and Conflict in the Bolivian Amazon -- 10. "All This Is Part of My Movement": Amazonian Indigenous Ways of Incorporating Knowledge in Urban Politics -- 11. Shifting Leadership Legitimation: From Heredity to Election among the Kali'na (French Guiana) -- List of Contributors -- Index.

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