Available online 3 February 2016
Highlights
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- Makushi communities’ struggles to face company orientated land use.
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- Landscapes are perceived through myths, oral history and convey identity.
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- Overlapping boundaries of different governmental maps.
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- Importance of continuous demarcated lands for Amerindian traditional territories.
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- Dilemmas of demarcation and weak leadership.
Abstract
Territorial
claims over resource extraction in Guyana have been intensifying over
the past years. This paper draws on a case from the South Pakaraima
Mountains, in which a yearly fishing expedition takes place in an area
that is being disputed by mining and logging interests. It becomes clear
that these different perceptions of territory, cartographies, knowledge
and practices coexist and conflict.
Keywords
- Land use;
- Disputes;
- Indigenous;
- Guyana;
- Amazon
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