In Search of a Bororo Mr. Right Flavia Kremer Granada Centre for Visual Anthropology, University of Manchester, 2018 In Search of a Bororo Mr. Right is an experimental "rom com", in that it seeks to introduce the romantic comedy genre as a novel tool for an ethnographic analysis...
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From Filmmaker Warriors to Flash Drive Shamans: Indigenous Media Production and Engagement in Latin America Edited by Richard Pace Vanderbilt University Press, 2018 From Filmmaker Warriors to Flash Drive Shamans broadens the base of research on Indigenous media in Latin America through thirteen chapters that explore groups such as...
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Stephen Nugent In Memoriam: 1950-2018 By Miguel Alexiades I was very sad to learn that our colleague Stephen Nugent passed away on November 13. Many will know Steve for his pioneering and excellent work on Brazilian peasant and ribereño societies, as well as on broader social processes relating...
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Life in Oil: Cofán Survival in the Petroleum Fields of Amazonia By Mike Cepek University of Texas Press, 2018 In Life in Oil, Mike Cepek reveals how the key fuel of the global era affects the communities where petroleum is extracted. This beautifully written ethnography describes how the Cofán people are surviving...
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SALSA Statement Regarding the Recent Election of Jair Bolsonaro as President of Brazil The Society for the Anthropology of Lowland South America, an international scholarly organization composed of 500 professors, students, and practitioners, hereby signals its concern and alarm at the recent election of Jair...
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Non-Humans in Amerindian South America: Ethnographies of Indigenous Cosmologies, Rituals and Songs Edited by Juan Javier Rivera Andía Berghahn Books, 2018 Drawing on fieldwork from diverse Amerindian societies whose lives and worlds are undergoing processes of transformation, adaptation, and deterioration, Non-Humans in Amerindian South America: Ethnographies of Indigenous...
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