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Erschienen in: Policy Sciences 2/2013

01.06.2013

Practical developments in law science and policy: efforts to protect the traditional group knowledge and practices of the Shuar, an indigenous people of the Ecuadorian Amazon

verfasst von: Craig Hammer, Juan Carlos Jintiach, Ricardo Tsakimp

Erschienen in: Policy Sciences | Ausgabe 2/2013

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Abstract

The purpose of this article is to broadly outline a problem in the context of relatively recent activity in the Amazon Basin. My colleagues and I found the Policy Sciences framework to be a useful blueprint for comprehensive issue analysis. The five intellectual tasks of the policy-oriented approach to solving problems helped us to clarify the apparent goals of the primary actors involved; identify certain trends associated with the problem, including estimations of their magnitude and implications; understand several conditioning factors which could impact (or have already had an impact on) the achievement of the goals identified; recognize several projections anticipated from a normative standpoint in light of the trends examined; and make some observations, including possible strategies and their alternatives, which might enable the Shuar to maximize benefits and minimize costs.

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1
Professor Winston Nagan is a policy scientist and Sam T. Dell Professor of Law at the University of Florida College of Law. At the time Nagan led (and as of this writing continues to lead) the culturally and ethnically diverse Institute for Human Rights, Peace and Development at the University of Florida, which has brought international attention to the struggle for indigenous peoples’ human rights. Throughout the Western Hemisphere, the Institute is widely known as a leading advocacy organization for indigenous peoples in Latin America, including the Shuar.
 
2
The Shuar are at times referred to as jívaros or jíbaros by Spanish-speaking non-Shuar. The word might derive from the sixteenth Century Spanish word meaning Shuar (šuarä or šiwar) and some Shuar view it as a pejorative. See Harner (1984); see also, Gnerre (1973).
 
3
The Shuar word, Karkaram, translates to mean “warrior.”
 
4
We were subsequently told that these perspectives, together with certain Shuar artifacts which the delegation themselves helped to identify at the Smithsonian’s Cultural Resources Center, have since been developed into a Shuar exhibition at the NMAI’s satellite museum in New York City.
 
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Metadaten
Titel
Practical developments in law science and policy: efforts to protect the traditional group knowledge and practices of the Shuar, an indigenous people of the Ecuadorian Amazon
verfasst von
Craig Hammer
Juan Carlos Jintiach
Ricardo Tsakimp
Publikationsdatum
01.06.2013
Verlag
Springer US
Erschienen in
Policy Sciences / Ausgabe 2/2013
Print ISSN: 0032-2687
Elektronische ISSN: 1573-0891
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11077-012-9166-6

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