People of the Rainforest: The Villas Boas brothers, Explorers and Humanitarians of the Amazon By John Hemming Oxford University Press, 2020 People of the Rainforest recounts the Villas Boas brothers' four thrilling and dangerous 'first contacts' with isolated indigenous people, and their lifelong mission to learn about their...
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Thematic Session 1: Outside views and indigenous realities SALSA XII Sesquiannual Conference - Vienna, 2019 Chair: Natalia García Bonet, University of Kent, UK Session Schedule Thursday, 27 June, KHM Vortragssaal 13:50 14:10 Dany Mahecha Rubio / Leonardo Arias, Una mirada multidisciplinar a la historia de las relaciones inter-étnicas en el Noroeste Amazónico. 14:10 14:30 Alexander...
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XII SALSA Conference Highlights The XII Sesquiannual Conference of SALSA was held June 27-30, 2019 at Weltmuseum Wien in a very warm Viennese summer, with Claudia Augustat (Weltmusem) responsible for general conference organization, and Juan Alvaro Echeverri (Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Sede Amazonia), responsible for the academic program. Here are some preliminary photo highlights: John Hemming speaking about Natterer during...
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Naturalists in Paradise: Wallace, Bates and Spruce in the Amazon By John Hemmings London and New York: Thames & Hudson, 2015 Naturalists in Paradise recounts how Alfred Russel Wallace, Henry Walter Bates and Richard Spruce, young English naturalists, went out to the Brazilian Amazon in 1848/49. Although of humble...
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Keynote Lecture 2002 Karl von den Steinen and Kurt Nimuendajú SALSA I Sesquiannual Conference, Annapolis John Hemming, Chairman, Amazon Charitable Trust, and former Director, Royal Geographic Society John Henry Hemming CMG (born 5 January 1935) is a historian and explorer, expert on Incas and indigenous peoples of the Amazon...
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