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SENTIENT LANDS by P. di Giminiani (2018)

Sentient Lands: Indigeneity, Property, and Political Imagination in Neoliberal Chile By Piergiorgio di Giminiani University of Arizona Press, 2018 Sentient Lands is a historically grounded ethnography of the Mapuche people’s engagement with state-run reconciliation and land-restitution efforts. Piergiorgio Di Giminiani analyzes environmental relations, property, state power, market forces, and...

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Club Fighters of the Amazon

CLUB FIGHTERS OF THE AMAZON By G. Verswijver (2018 [1992])

The Club-Fighters of the Amazon Warfare among the Kayapo Indians of Central Brazil By Gustaaf Verswijver  Turuti Books, 2018 (new edition of Gustaaf Verswijver's 1992 monograph) First published in 1992, The Club-Fighters of the Amazona has been described by Laura Rival (University of Oxford) as “an invaluable contribution to Kayapo ethnography”....

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SALSA XII SESQUIANNUAL CONFERENCE June 27-30, 2019, Vienna (07.04.18)

The SALSA XII Sesquiannual Conference of SALSA will be hold June 27-30, 2019 at Weltmuseum Wien in Vienna, with Claudia Augustat (Weltmusem) responsible for general conference organization, and Juan Alvaro Echeverri (Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Sede Amazonia), responsible for the academic program. Visit the 2019 SALSA conference homepage for details and updates. ...

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