Space and Society in Central Brazil: A Panará Ethnography By Elizabeth Ewart Bloomsbury Publishing, 2013 Hailed once as 'giants of the Amazon', Panará people emerged onto a world stage in the early 1970s. What followed is a remarkable story of socio-demographic collapse, loss of territory, and subsequent recovery. Reduced...
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Behold the Black Caiman By Lucas Bessire University of Chicago Press, 2014 ...
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Ethnicity in Ancient Amazonia: Reconstructing Past Identities from Archaeology, Linguistics, and Ethnohistory Edited by Alf Hornborg & Jonathan Hill University Press of Colorado, 2013 A transdisciplinary collaboration among ethnologists, linguists, and archaeologists, Ethnicity in Ancient Amazonia traces the emergence, expansion, and decline of cultural identities in indigenous Amazonia. Hornborg...
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Global Ecology and Unequal Exchange: Fetishism in a Zero-Sum World By Alf Hornborg Routledge, 2012 In modern society, we tend to have faith in technology. But is our concept of ‘technology’ itself a cultural illusion? Global Ecology and Unequal Exchange challenges the idea that humanity as a whole is...
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Ecology and Power: Struggles Over Land and Material Resources in the Past, Present, and Future Edited by Alf Hornborg, Brett Clark & Kenneth Hermele Routledge, 2012 Power and social inequality shape patterns of land use and resource management. Ecology and Power explores this relationship from different perspectives, illuminating...
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People of Substance: An Ethnography of Morality in the Colombian Amazon By Carlos Londoño Sulkin University of Toronto Press, 2012 People of Substance is a lively, accessible ethnography of a complex indigenous group of people of the Colombian Amazon who call themselves ‘People of the Center. ’ Carlos...
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