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the accumulation of objects nor resources. Indigenous peoples who advocate for a good
quality of life do not conceive of the growth of a people in the same form as can be inferred

from the Western concept of development which is itself part of the sustainable

‘development’ approach. The approach to living well proposes rather a vision that aims to

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respect the cycle of life.
Despite the assimilation of the concept of development by a few indigenous communities,

adherence to this philosophy would tend to undermine their own philosophy of life. In
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reality, for numerous indigenous peoples, the concept of wealth or of poverty is connected
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with the accumulation or good does not exist. The only situation comparable with poverty
is the Mutsui (in certain Andean communities), who are associated with the deficiency of

certain products required for food security due to errors in use and in agricultural

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programming. It is a temporary stage in their community, which can be overcome by
integrating the principles of solidarity, and reciprocity, which are part of the approach to

living-well.

Another point of divergence between these two approaches is the dichotomy between the

anthropocentrism put forward by the approach of sustainable development and the

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cosmoscentrist or even ecocentric vision of the approach to living-well. In effect, in the

280 Id.
281 Carlos VITERI GUALINGA, « Visión indígena del desarrollo en la Amazonía », (2002) 3 Polis, 1, 2, en ligne,
http://polis.revues.org/7678 (consulted the 11th March 2016).
282 Id
283 Id., p.3
284 Id.
285 J. VAHHULST et A. E. BELING, Préc., note 26.

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