Titles of Contention: Sociocultural Change and Conflict over Legalization of Indigenous Lands in Southeastern Ecuador:

Shuar communities in southeastern Ecuador are receiving collective property titles to their ancestral lands. This is being done as a way to guarantee their material and cultural survival, but the titling triggers sociocultural changes and conflict and its outcomes depend largely on the way it is implemented. The consequences of the titling process in communities in Nangaritza and El Pangui in which Shuar, Saraguro, and mestizos coexist include both tensions and informal arrangements to resolve the historically conflictive issue of access to the land.Las comunidades Shuar en el sureste de Ecuador estan recibiendo titulos de propiedad colectiva de sus tierras ancestrales. Esto se esta haciendo como una forma de garantizar su supervivencia material y cultural, pero la titulacion desencadena cambios y conflictos socioculturales y sus resultados dependen en gran medida de la forma en que se implemente. Las consecuencias del proceso de titulacion en comunidades de Nangaritza y El Pangui en las que cohabitan Shu...