Celebration: Photographs of the Guna Chicha Celebración: Fotografías de la Chicha Guna By James Howe Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute & Congreso General de la Cultura Guna, 2016 The Guna of Panama, famous for their visual and verbal art, celebrate the coming of age of their daughters in dramatic village-wide...
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La vaquerita y su canto: una antropología de las emociones By Juan Javier Rivera Andía Rumbo Sur, 2016 La vaquerita y su canto es el fruto maduro de un investigador que se ha ido formando y forjando en esos itinerarios de trabajo de campo y escritura de los...
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Huaorani Transformations in Twenty-First-Century Ecuador: Treks into the Future of Time By Laura Rival University of Arizona, 2016 Rival’s intimate knowledge of Huaorani culture spans twenty-five years. Here in Huaorani Transformations, a collection of broad-ranging essays, she offers a fascinating and provocative study. The indigenous people of the Amazon...
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Thunder Shaman: Making History with Mapuche Spirits in Chile and Patagonia By Ana Mariella Bacigalupo University of Texas Press, 2016 The first study of how Mapuche shamans make history, Thunder Shaman challenges perceptions of shamans as being outside of history and examines how shamans themselves understand notions of civilization,...
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Ownership and Nurture: Studies in Native Amazonian Property Relations Edited by Marc Brightman, Carlos Fausto & Vanessa Grotti Berghahn Books, 2016 The first book to address the classic anthropological theme of property through the ethnography of Amazonia, Ownership and Nurture sets new and challenging terms for anthropological debates about...
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Radical Territories in the Brazilian Amazon: The Kayapó's Fight for Just Livelihoods. By Laura Zanotti University of Arizona Press, 2016 Radical Territories in the Brazilian Amazon sheds light on the creative and groundbreaking efforts Kayapó peoples deploy to protect their lands and livelihoods. Now at the front lines...
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