Translating Worlds, Defending Land Collaborations for Indigenous Rights and Environmental Politics in Amazonia By Casey High Stanford University Press, 2025 In 2019, after decades of ecological damage from oil, Waorani people took to the streets of Amazonian Ecuador to protest drilling on their ancestral lands. Working with international activists,...
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Sorcery in Amazonia A Comparative Exploration of Magical Assault Edited by James Andrew Whitaker, Matthias Lewy, and Tarryl Janik Ibero-Amerikanisches Institut, 2025 Although shamanism has become a well-developed and expansive topic within the anthropology of Amazonia, the ethnographic literature focusing on sorcery has been sporadic and sparse by comparison. This has...
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The Shamanism of Eco-Tourism History and Ontology among the Makushi in Guyana By James Andrew Whitaker Cambridge University Press, 2025 In The Shamanism of Eco-Tourism. the first book in English to focus specifically on the Makushi in Guyana, James Andrew Whitaker examines how shamanism informs Makushi interactions with outsiders in...
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Crônicas de uma comunidade amazônica Oito décadas de pesquisa e envolvimento em Gurupá, Pará Editado por Richard Pace & Helena Lima Museu Paraense Emilio Goldi, 2024 Veja também a versão em inglês. Crônicas de uma comunidade amazônica pretende sanar uma lacuna do conhecimento sobre a cidade de Gurupá, Brazil. Em...
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Chronicling Amazon Town Eight decades of research and engagement in Gurupá, Brazil Edited by Richard Pace & Helena Lima University Press of Florida, 2024 See also the version in Portuguese. In Chronicling Amazon Town, Richard Pace and Helena Lima bring together the work of researchers from a variety of fields...
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Universos chibchas Nuevas aproximaciones a la unidad y la diversidad humana del área istmocolombiana Editado por Juan Camilo Niño y Stephen Beckerman Universidad de Los Andes, 2024 Universos Chibchas marca un hito en la antropología y la etnografía indígena al problematizar la unidad y diversidad de los pueblos de...
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