Anthropological discussions of indigenous participation in (or exclusion from) conservation projects tend to emphasize contrasting socio‐environmental relations and power asymmetries. By tracing Waiwai interpretations of a protected area partnership in southern Guyana, the article describes how indigenous ideas about land and boundaries have implications beyond enacting the “environment.” Waiwai emphases on an obligation of care implied through enclosure, framed in terms of pets and pens, speak to the practical and political importance of building relationships with powerful outsiders for contemporary Amazonian livelihoods. Despite the value placed on self‐sufficiency in environmentalist discourse, the ability to make claims on others—including from a position of dependency—matters for obtaining land rights, development outcomes, and money. These outcomes, which deepen relations to governments, NGOs, and market economies, are important to how Waiwai people think of sustaining their lives. This article suggests that relations of strategic dependency are an important, though potentially fraught, form of indigenous agency in Amazonia. [agency, dependency, environmental conservation, development, Guyana, Amazonia, Waiwai]

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划界的钢笔和受养宠物：亚马逊土著保护区的保护生计

关于土著人民参与（或排斥）自然保护项目的人类学讨论倾向于强调形成对比的社会环境关系和权力不对称。通过追溯圭亚那南部对保护区伙伴关系的外援解释，该文章描述了关于土地和边界的土著思想如何对制定“环境”产生影响。Waiwai强调通过围封隐含的关怀义务，用宠物和钢笔来表示，这表明与强大的局外人建立关系对当代亚马逊人的生活具有现实和政治意义。尽管在环保主义话语中重视自给自足，但对他人提出主张的能力（包括从依赖的地位出发）对获得土地权，发展成果和金钱至关重要。这些结果加深了与政府，非政府组织和市场经济体的关系，对于外来人们如何维持自己的生活至关重要。本文认为，战略依赖关系是亚马逊地区土著机构的一种重要形式，尽管可能充满了麻烦。[机构，依赖性，环境保护，发展，圭亚那，亚马孙地区，怀外]