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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