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Polyphonies amérindiennes
15
June

Polyphonies amérindiennes (vol 1), ed. by V. Vapnarsky, P. Erikson, M Chosson & E. de Vienne (2025)

June 15, 2025
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Polyphonies amérindiennes Variations en anthropologie (&) linguistique offertes à Aurore Monod Becquelin (Volume 1) Edited by Valentina Vapnarsky, Philippe Erikson, Marie Chosson & Emmanuel de Vienne Société d’ethnologie, Nanterre, 2025 Amerindian languages and discourses are the main focus of Polyphonies amérindiennes, with leading specialists in the Amazonian and Mayan...

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Indigenous Alliance Making
19
April

Indigenous Alliance Making, ed. by J. Whitaker & M. Harris (2025)

April 19, 2025
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Indigenous Alliance Making Histories of Agency in Colonial Lowland South America Edited by James Andrew Whitaker & Mark Harris The University of Arizona Press, 2025 During the colonial and postcolonial eras, local people in lowland South America experienced exploitation from outsiders. But as new kinds of societies emerged from...

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18
March

Translating Worlds, Defending Land, by C. High (2025)

March 18, 2025
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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
27
February

Sorcery in Amazonia, ed. by J.A. Whitaker, M. Lewy & T. Janik (2025)

February 27, 2025
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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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