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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Conjuring Property: Speculation and Environmental Futures in the Brazilian Amazon By Jeremy M. Campbell University of Washington Press, 2015 Conjuring Property: Speculation and Environmental Futures in the Brazilian Amazon is winner of the 2017 James M. Blaut Award from the Cultural and Political Ecology Specialty Group of the...
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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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