Naturalists in Paradise: Wallace, Bates and Spruce in the Amazon By John Hemmings London and New York: Thames & Hudson, 2015 Naturalists in Paradise recounts how Alfred Russel Wallace, Henry Walter Bates and Richard Spruce, young English naturalists, went out to the Brazilian Amazon in 1848/49. Although of humble...
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Comprender los rituales ganaderos en los Andes y más allá: Etnografías de lidias, herranzas y arriarías By Juan Javier Rivera Andía Shaker Verlag (Bonner Amerikanistische Studien), 2014 Comprender los rituales ganaderos en los Andes y más allá ofrece un conjunto de etnografías sobre las variedades del tratamiento ritual...
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Antropologia e História Xavante em Perspectiva Edited by Carlos E. A. Coimbra Jr. & James R. Welch Museu do Índio/ FUNAI, 2014 Antropologia e História Xavante em Perspectiva vem preencher lacunas na literatura, existentes entre algumas monografias que consideramos clássicas e outros importantes artigos e capítulos já traduzidos...
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Na Primeira Margem do Rio: Território e Ecologia do Povo Xavante de Wedezé By James R. Welch, Ricardo Ventura Santos, Nancy M. Flowers, & Carlos E. A. Coimbra Jr. Museu do Índio/ FUNAI, 2013 Presente no imaginário coletivo Xavante desde longa data, o território recentemente identificado pela Fundação Nacional...
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The Falling Sky: Words of a Yanomami Shaman By Davi Kopenawa and Bruce Albert Harvard University Press, 2013 (trans. by Nicholas Elliot and Allison Dundy) The Falling Sky is a remarkable first-person account of the life story and cosmo-ecological thought of Davi Kopenawa, shaman and spokesman for the Yanomami...
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Upriver: The Turbulent Life and Times of an Amazonian People By Michael F. Brown Harvard University Press, 2014 In this remarkable book (Upriver: The Turbulent Life and Times of an Amazonian People) that tells the remarkable story of one man’s encounter with an indigenous people of Peru, Michael Brown...
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