The vernacularization of conservation initiatives in the indigenous territories of the Bolivian Amazonian region: an analysis of indigenous ancestral revival within two ecotourism projects for protected areas

Abstract

Throughout the decade of the 1990s, the legal regime of biodiversity and the implementation of multiculturalism served as the action framework for an alliance between conservation discourse and indigenous territorial claims, thus converting indigenous people from the Bolivian Amazonia in environmental subjects while part of their territories was submitted to the restriction regime of protected areas. How do ideas, strategies and norms integrate —in the framework of exogenous conservationist projects that are set up in the Madidi and Pilon Lajas Parks in the Bolivian Amazonia— with the institutions, rules and practices of the Tacana and Tsimane' mosetene indigenous groups?