Title
The Takanas: Access to land and natural resources (1950-2003) / Los Takanas: El acceso a la tierra y los recursos naturales (1950-2003)
Author(s)
Zulema Clay Ardaya
Published
2010
Publisher
Boletín Americanista
Abstract
The Takana Indians of the Bolivian Amazon obtained legal title over a small portion of their ancestral territory in 2003. This article analyzes the chan-ges in the Takana's system of rules of access to land and natural resources, from 1950 until today. It describes how the Takanas have articulated the family access rules with the common access rules into one system, which applies in different activity spaces such as agriculture, hunting, gathering, religious prac-tices and most recently the commercial use of different natural species. The article discusses the Takana adaptation to the challenges and tendencies of the natural resources use in common land access systems. / The Takana Indians of the Amazonian region of Bolivia, in 2003 succeeded in having the State title only a small portion of their ancestral territory in their favor. The article analyzes the changes in the Takana system of access to land and natural resources from 1950 to the present. It describes how the takana have articulated family access with common access in a system that applies to different areas of activity such as agriculture, gathering, hunting, religious practices and more recently the commercial use of different natural species. The article discusses the adaptation of the takanas to the challenges and trends of natural resource use in systems of communal access to land.
Keywords
Takana Indigenous People; Amazonian Indians; Bolivia; Governance; Governance; Communal systems; Natural resources; Takana Indigenous People; Amazonian Indians; Governan-ce; Communal Resource Access System
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