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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Fluent Selves: Autobiography, Person, and History in Lowland South America Edited by Suzanne Oakdale and Magnus Course University of Nebraska Press, 2014 Fluent Selves examines narrative practices throughout lowland South America focusing on indigenous communities in Brazil, Chile, Ecuador, and Peru, illuminating the social and cultural processes that...
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Performing Indigeneity: Global Histories and Contemporary Experiences Edited By Laura Graham & H. Glenn Penny University of Nebraska Press, 2014 Performing Indigeneity: Global Histories and Contemporary Experiences discusses the complexities of “being” indigenous in public spaces. Laura R. Graham and H. Glenn Penny bring together a set of highly...
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Space and Society in Central Brazil: A Panará Ethnography By Elizabeth Ewart Bloomsbury Publishing, 2013 Hailed once as 'giants of the Amazon', Panará people emerged onto a world stage in the early 1970s. What followed is a remarkable story of socio-demographic collapse, loss of territory, and subsequent recovery. Reduced...
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