New Issue of Tipití 12(2) We are pleased to publish this volume of the journal featuring a special topic section on creolization in Amazonia edited by Dr. Catherine Alès and Dr. Ernst Halbmayer. The issue opens with a fine article on the languages of Amazonia and...
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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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Animism in Rainforest and Tundra: Personhood, Animals, Plants and Things in Contemporary Amazonia and Siberia By Marc Brightman, Vanessa Elisa Grotti & Olga Ultrugasheva Berghahn Books, 2014 Animism in Rainforest and Tundra: Personhood, Animals, Plants and Things in Contemporary Amazonia and Siberia offers valuable insights into the constitutions of humanity...
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Renato Athias Federal University of Pernambuco (UFPE) Member-at-Large of the SALSA Board 2014-2017 Renato Athias is Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology and Museology and Coordinator of the Center of Ethnicities Studies (NEPE) at the Federal University of Pernambuco in Recife. His research interests include shamanism, ethnicity, museology,...
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