Trans-Environmental Dynamics: Understanding and Debating Ontologies, Politics, and History in Latin America Trans-Environmental Dynamics, Conference at LMU Munich, Germani, 29-31 October 2015. Conveners: Eveline Dürr (LMU Munich), Ernst Halbmayer (University of Marburg), and Karoline Noack (University of Bonn). Sponsors: LMU Munich in cooperation with the Rachel...
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New Issue of Tipití 12(2) We are pleased to publish this volume of the journal featuring a special topic section on creolization in Amazonia edited by Dr. Catherine Alès and Dr. Ernst Halbmayer. The issue opens with a fine article on the languages of Amazonia and...
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Na Primeira Margem do Rio: Território e Ecologia do Povo Xavante de Wedezé By James R. Welch, Ricardo Ventura Santos, Nancy M. Flowers, & Carlos E. A. Coimbra Jr. Museu do Índio/ FUNAI, 2013 Presente no imaginário coletivo Xavante desde longa data, o território recentemente identificado pela Fundação Nacional...
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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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