Title/Reference:
Carlos Marcelo Piaguaje.
Author: G. Arboleda
Image No.: 227
Code No.: D03VII24-I-00966
Approx. shoot date:
July 24, 2003
Date uploaded:
March 12, 2005
Orig. File Size: 14.4 MB
Original Media: Digital
Filed under:
People Elders Men Showroom Digital 10-20 MB 2003 Ecuador Arboleda, G. Projects Secoya
Related notes:
New Voices revised abstract
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Place |
Ecuador – Upper Amazon - Sucumbíos – Secoya Remolino.
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Description |
Carlos Marcelo, one of Cesáreo's young brothers. Indeed, Carlos Marcelo is by his own estimates some like 25 years younger than the nonagenarian patriarch.
The picture was taken during the days in which, just as Cesáreo, he was preparing to move to Lagartococha. The oldest Secoyas saw the fact of moving deeper into the forest as a return to paradise, where they could be away from the disturbance of oil companies' work. Carlos Marcelo, however, intended to keep his land near the oil field in Siehuaya, planning to make periodic trips to maintain the crops.
For many Secoyas, staying away from the oil companies is not taken as a moral issue but just as a practical decision: if they don't like them, they just move farther away. Moving away, in consequence, does not necessarily mean a statement of a conflictive relationship with the companies. For many Westerners fond of the idea of being either with or against, but not both, such way to relate to oil companies may sound a little disconcerting.
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