Fire Otherwise: Ethnobiology of Burning for a Changing World Edited by Cynthia T. Fowler and James R. Welch University of Utah Press, 2018 Fire is a daunting human ecological challenge and a major subject in science and policy debates about global trends in land conversion, climate change, and...
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From Filmmaker Warriors to Flash Drive Shamans: Indigenous Media Production and Engagement in Latin America Edited by Richard Pace Vanderbilt University Press, 2018 From Filmmaker Warriors to Flash Drive Shamans broadens the base of research on Indigenous media in Latin America through thirteen chapters that explore groups such as...
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Life in Oil: Cofán Survival in the Petroleum Fields of Amazonia By Mike Cepek University of Texas Press, 2018 In Life in Oil, Mike Cepek reveals how the key fuel of the global era affects the communities where petroleum is extracted. This beautifully written ethnography describes how the Cofán people are surviving...
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Non-Humans in Amerindian South America: Ethnographies of Indigenous Cosmologies, Rituals and Songs Edited by Juan Javier Rivera Andía Berghahn Books, 2018 Drawing on fieldwork from diverse Amerindian societies whose lives and worlds are undergoing processes of transformation, adaptation, and deterioration, Non-Humans in Amerindian South America: Ethnographies of Indigenous...
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Cañaris: etnografías y documentos de la sierra norte del Perú Edited by Juan Javier Rivera Andía Colección Ethnographica, 2018 Cañaris: etnografías y documentos de la sierra norte del Perú contiene diversos artículos que giran sobre una región muy poco conocida del Perú, la Sierra de Lambayeque y el área...
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Indigenous Life Projects and Extractivism Edited by Cecilie Vindal Ødegaard and Juan Javier Rivera Andía Palgrave Macmillan, 2019 (ebook, open access) Exploring indigenous life in encounters with extractivism, Indigenous Life Projects and Extrativism discusses how current turbulences actualise questions of indigeneity, difference and ontological dynamics in the Andes and...
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