I can only offer you expertise on the Ecuadorian Amazon as such, most works do not differentiate clearly in regions. One of the most important researchers is the recently died Blanca Muratorio. The Whittens (Norman and Dorothea) have been working quite some time with indigenous peoples in the Amazon. Guillaume Fontaine has been working on petrol exploitation in the region. In general, it seems that FLACSO Ecuador has some of the most important researchers on this topic.

Thank you for your answer Philipp, and thanks also for enhancing the question.

FLACSO is definitely the starting point, I just find it curious that there is so little information on this process when the attention given to ITT has been enormous. Regarding anthropology on Ecuadorian Amazon, thanks for the two names (they were unfamiliar to me), there is quite a lot (Descola, Rival etc.) to hang on to including the Whittens, but little from the Yasuni area which is currently very interesting. I asked the question because I was and still is to some degree considering the possibility of developing a project for a master thesis on this. However, as there has been quite some scholarly attention towards Yasuni ITT there are a lot of publications of different qualities. Still, the debate appears complex, extremely polarized / politicized and somewhat more fit for a ph.d project which would be a more feasible option. So I will see and figure it out. My last idea which links to the question above was the possibility of doing participant observation with PetroEcuador as they establish themselves on the new camps in Yasuni. I think that could have some fruitful possibilities, and that was the reason I asked about the current progress of the oil extraction in the national park.

Anyway, thank you very much once again, Philipp. We stay in touch.

Regards, 

Gard