Indigenous Land Rights in the Inter-American System

"Mariana Monteiro de Matos, a brilliant young scholar, dedicates this book to the mighty Amazon, her "waterland," and its peoples. Born and raised in northwest Brazil, she has witnessed in close proximity the alarming harm done to this lung of the Earth as well as the threats to the survival, both physical and cultural, of its natural stewards, its indigenous peoples. She has also seen the resistance rising against the razing of all cultural differences in the name of an allegedly superior modern civilization, based on overweening economic and military might. The banner- cry of this resistance was the plea to accommodate vastly different ways of life, identities, affiliations, and allegiances around the world. The author has coined the term "polyversity" to encapsulate this policy goal"--