AbstractIn the Ecuadorian Amazon, the Huaorani are the indigenous group most recently assimilated into the country's social, political, and economic order. With vast reserves of oil located under ...

Part I: Among forest beings. 1. Domesticating the landscape, producing crops, and reproducing society in Amazonia ; 2. Naming trees ; 3. Historical ecology in Amazonia -- Part II: In the longhouse. 4.

Contact with outsiders often spells doom for isolated tribes, said Stanley Stewart in Condé Nast Traveller (U.K.). But one such tribe in Ecuador’s Amazon rain forest—the Huaorani—is turning to ...

In my early thirties, I went to South America in a futile attempt to escape from myself. Another relationship had ended, and I was lonely and withdrawn. I thought that if I put myself in the middle of ...

A giant anaconda species thought to be the largest in the world has been captured deep in the Amazon of Ecuador by a team of scientists from The University of Queensland. “The size of these ...

In 1956, five missionaries were viciously killed in Ecuador and, as a 7-year-old boy at the time armed with a Life magazine that chronicled the unparalleled tragedy that summer, I was mesmerized by ...