"The Fish Trap", by G. Shepard, chosen by SAPIENS to celebrate World Poetry Day "The Fish Trap", a poem by anthropologist-poet Glenn Shepard, who works with Indigenous peoples in Latin America, was chosen by SAPIENS to celebrate World Poetry Day. This is Shepard's introduction to his poem: The...
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Mike Cepek's book Life in Oil recognized in the 2019 PROSE awards SALSA extends warm congratulations to long-time member Mike Cepek, whose book on the Cofán people was selected as a finalist of the 2019 PROSE Awards, honoring scholarly works published in 2018. Revealing how the key fuel of...
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The human face of Manu Park: National Geographic The June issue of National Geographic included a feature story by Emma Marris on the human history and conservation status of Manu National Park, Peru. SALSA member Glenn Shepard guided Marris during the expedition to Manu, and the...
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I wanted to share this podcast from BBC's Science in Action in which I was interviewed last Thursday on the topic of isolated indigenous societies of Amazonia. The show and starts with a 7 min segment on MERS (hence the camels pictured on the home...
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