Children of the Rainforest Shaping the Future in Amazonia By Camilla Morelli Forword and Afterword by Roldán Dunú Tumi Dësi Rutgers University Press, 2023 Children of the Rainforest explores the lives of children growing up in a time of radical change in Amazonia. The book draws on ethnographic fieldwork conducted...
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Fundraiser: The Matses vs. Coronavirus in Iquitos Organized by Camilla Morelli 5-11-2020 The Matses, an indigenous people in the Peruvian Amazon, are in great danger from Coronavirus. Their territory is very remote and the virus has not reached it, but there are 175 Matses in Iquitos, a jungle...
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Matses Video: “There’s no oxygen in the lungs of the world” Camilla Morelli 5-12-2020 The Matses made a video to explain what’s happening. In Amazonia, many indigenous Matses people are stranded in the city during lockdown and they can’t go back to their forest villages. They are living...
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PANEL 03: Indigenous futures: anthropology of the forthcoming in native Amazonia SALSA XII Sesquiannual Conference - Vienna, 2019 Organizers: Camilla Morelli, University of Bristol, UK Amy Penfield, University of Bristol, UK Chairs: Camilla Morelli, Amy Penfield Abstract: This panel considers how indigenous Amazonians imagine, discuss and negotiate the future amidst radical...
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Amazonimations Camilla Morelli, University of Bristol, 2019 Amazonimations is a collection of three animated short films (total length: 7 minutes) that were scripted, narrated and illustrated by different generations of Matses people in Peru – and produced in collaboration with an indigenous artist and a professional animator. The...
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