Amazonian Routes: Indigenous Mobility and Colonial Communities in Northern Brazil By Heather Roller Stanford University Press, 2014 Amazonian Routes: Indigenous Mobility and Colonial Communities in Northern Brazil reconstructs the world of eighteenth-century Amazonia to argue that indigenous mobility did not undermine settlement or community. In doing so, it revises...
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Mysteries of the Jaguar Shamans of the Northwest Amazon By Robin M. Wright, with forward by Michael J. Harner University of Nebraska Press, 2013 Mysteries of the Jaguar Shamans of the Northwest Amazon tells the life story of Mandu da Silva, the last living jaguar shaman among the Baniwa...
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Spiritual Ecology: The Quiet Revolution Leslie E. Sponsel Praeger, 2012...
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Indigenous Youth in Brazilian Amazonia: Changing Lived Worlds By Pirjo Kristiina Virtanen Palgrave Macmillan, 2012 Indigenous Youth in Brazilian Amazonia wonders about how do Amazonian native young people perceive, question, and negotiate the new kinds of social and cultural situations in which they find themselves? Virtanen looks at how...
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Under a Watchful Eye: Self, Power, and Intimacy in Amazonia By Harry Walker University of California Press, 2012 What does it mean to be accompanied? How can autonomy and a sense of self emerge through one’s involvement with others? Under a Watchful Eye examines the formation of self among...
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Hijos de la Selva / Sons of the Forest: The Ethnographic Photography of Max Schmidt Edited by Viggo Mortensen, with texts by Federico Bossert and Diego Villar Perceval Press, 2013 Hijos de la Selva / Sons of the Forest outlines the story of German Ethnographer and explorer Max Schmidt, and includes many...
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