Na Primeira Margem do Rio: Território e Ecologia do Povo Xavante de Wedezé By James R. Welch, Ricardo Ventura Santos, Nancy M. Flowers, & Carlos E. A. Coimbra Jr. Museu do Índio/ FUNAI, 2013 Presente no imaginário coletivo Xavante desde longa data, o território recentemente identificado pela Fundação Nacional...
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The Falling Sky: Words of a Yanomami Shaman By Davi Kopenawa and Bruce Albert Harvard University Press, 2013 (trans. by Nicholas Elliot and Allison Dundy) The Falling Sky is a remarkable first-person account of the life story and cosmo-ecological thought of Davi Kopenawa, shaman and spokesman for the Yanomami...
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Kuna Art and Shamanism: An Ethnographic Approach By Paolo Fortis University of Texas Press, 2013 Exploring an art form that informs birth and death, personhood, the dream world, the natural world, religion, gender roles, and ecology, Kuna Art and Shamanism provides a rich understanding of this society’s visual...
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The Ecology of the Barí: Rainforest Horticulturalists of Latin America By Stephen Beckerman and Roberto Lizarralde University of Texas Press, 2013 Inhabiting the rainforest of the southwest Maracaibo Basin, split by the border between Colombia and Venezuela, the Barí have survived centuries of incursions. Anthropologist Roberto Lizarralde began...
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Cultural Forests of the Amazon: A Historical Ecology of People and Their Landscapes By William Balée University of Alabama Press, 2013 Cultural Forests of the Amazon is a comprehensive and diverse account of how indigenous people transformed landscapes and managed resources in the most extensive region of tropical...
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Space and Society in Central Brazil: A Panará Ethnography By Elizabeth Ewart Bloomsbury Publishing, 2013 Hailed once as 'giants of the Amazon', Panará people emerged onto a world stage in the early 1970s. What followed is a remarkable story of socio-demographic collapse, loss of territory, and subsequent recovery. Reduced...
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