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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Kuna Art and Shamanism: An Ethnographic Approach By Paolo Fortis University of Texas Press, 2013 Exploring an art form that informs birth and death, personhood, the dream world, the natural world, religion, gender roles, and ecology, Kuna Art and Shamanism provides a rich understanding of this society’s visual...
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The Ecology of the Barí: Rainforest Horticulturalists of Latin America By Stephen Beckerman and Roberto Lizarralde University of Texas Press, 2013 Inhabiting the rainforest of the southwest Maracaibo Basin, split by the border between Colombia and Venezuela, the Barí have survived centuries of incursions. Anthropologist Roberto Lizarralde began...
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Cultural Forests of the Amazon: A Historical Ecology of People and Their Landscapes By William Balée University of Alabama Press, 2013 Cultural Forests of the Amazon is a comprehensive and diverse account of how indigenous people transformed landscapes and managed resources in the most extensive region of tropical...
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