Mysteries of the Jaguar Shamans of the Northwest Amazon By Robin M. Wright, with forward by Michael J. Harner University of Nebraska Press, 2013 Mysteries of the Jaguar Shamans of the Northwest Amazon tells the life story of Mandu da Silva, the last living jaguar shaman among the Baniwa...
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Conversations in the Lobby 2014: Anthropossibilities: What Can Amazonianists Bring to the Conversation? SALSA IX Sesquiannual Conference, Gothenburg 2014 Organizer: Beth A. Conklin (Vanderbilt University / SALSA President) Abstract What is our work good for? Not, what purpose does it serve for scholarship and South American people and causes,...
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Spiritual Ecology: The Quiet Revolution Leslie E. Sponsel Praeger, 2012...
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Indigenous Youth in Brazilian Amazonia: Changing Lived Worlds By Pirjo Kristiina Virtanen Palgrave Macmillan, 2012 Indigenous Youth in Brazilian Amazonia wonders about how do Amazonian native young people perceive, question, and negotiate the new kinds of social and cultural situations in which they find themselves? Virtanen looks at how...
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Under a Watchful Eye: Self, Power, and Intimacy in Amazonia By Harry Walker University of California Press, 2012 What does it mean to be accompanied? How can autonomy and a sense of self emerge through one’s involvement with others? Under a Watchful Eye examines the formation of self among...
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Tribal Chiefs Talk At Oxford University "Tribal chiefs from Brazil stressed the importance of the Amazon rainforest in a talk at Oxford University. It has been the life’s work of Raoni Metuktire and Megaron Txucarramae to promote the interests of Amazonian indigenous tribes. They spoke at Christ...
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