ABSTRACT
This chapter examines two ethnographic case studies to analyze Amazonian territorialities. One case is drawn from research with Peruvian migrants between the Amazon and Andes, and the other is based on Kayap experiences in Brazil. The chapter demonstrates how Peruvian migrants and Kayapo villagers define connections to place and articulate identities by engaging in border crossings. It uses historical and ethnographic perspectives to point to the roles of state, conservation, indigenous and other actors in creating, strengthening and contesting borders that have defined Amazonian territorialities. The chapter focuses on a racialized boundary between Andes and Amazon that has positioned Amazonia in opposition to the highland Andes. It looks at the livelihoods and identities of migrants from the Cultural Zone abutting Manu National Park living in the highland Andean city of Cusco, Peru. The Kayap Indigenous Lands are notably conspicuous on maps of the Brazilian Amazon.
