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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Religion, Medicine, and Healing: Contemporary Perspectives By Robin Wright Kendall Hunt Publishing Company, 2016 Religion, Medicine and Healing is an anthology developed from a critique that many people have formulated concerning the relations of contemporary western biomedicine and local healing traditions. Many local traditions, it happens, are in danger...
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Revolt of the Saints: Memory and Redemption in the Twilight of Brazilian Racial Democracy By John F. Collins Duke University Press, 2015 In Revolt of the Saints, John F. Collins explores the contested removal of the inhabitants of Brazil’s first capital and best-known site for Afro-Brazilian history, arguing...
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Images of Public Wealth or the Anatomy of Well-Being in Indigenous Amazonia Edited by Fernando Santos-Granero The University of Arizona Press, 2015 What is considered a good life in contemporary societies? Can we measure well-being and happiness? Reflecting a global interest on the topics of well-being, happiness, and...
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Reconhecimento dos Rios Içana, Ayari e Uaupés: Apontamentos Linguisticos e Fotografias de Curt Nimuendajú Edited by Renato Athias Museu do Indio (Rio de Janeiro) and Editora of UFPE (Recife), 2015 Reconhecimento dos Rios Içana, Ayari e Uaupés contains important ethnographic and linguistic materials that Curt Nimuendaju wrote, in...
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Die Lieder der Richtigen Menschen: Musikalische Kulturanthropologie der indigenen Bevölkerung im Ucayali-Tal, Westamazonien By Bernd Brabec de Mori Helbling Verlag, 2015 I gladly announce the launching of my book Die Lider der Richtigen Menschen: Musikalische Kulturanthropologie der indigenen Bevölkerung im Ucayali-Tal, Westamazonien ("Songs of the Real People. A Musical...
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