Michael L. Cepek

Revealing how the key fuel of the global era affects the communities where petroleum is extracted, this beautifully written ethnography describes how the Cofán people are surviving at the center of the Ecuadorian oil industry.

A remarkable story of empowerment, tracing the efforts of Randy Borman, the “gringo chief” who stemmed the tide of dispossession and rainforest destruction beginning in the 1990s and helped the Cofán of Amazonian Ecuador flourish as the result of unique c