Life in Oil: Cofán Survival in the Petroleum Fields of Amazonia By Mike Cepek University of Texas Press, 2018 In Life in Oil, Mike Cepek reveals how the key fuel of the global era affects the communities where petroleum is extracted. This beautifully written ethnography describes how the Cofán people are surviving...
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Non-Humans in Amerindian South America: Ethnographies of Indigenous Cosmologies, Rituals and Songs Edited by Juan Javier Rivera Andía Berghahn Books, 2018 Drawing on fieldwork from diverse Amerindian societies whose lives and worlds are undergoing processes of transformation, adaptation, and deterioration, Non-Humans in Amerindian South America: Ethnographies of Indigenous...
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Cañaris: etnografías y documentos de la sierra norte del Perú Edited by Juan Javier Rivera Andía Colección Ethnographica, 2018 Cañaris: etnografías y documentos de la sierra norte del Perú contiene diversos artículos que giran sobre una región muy poco conocida del Perú, la Sierra de Lambayeque y el área...
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Indigenous Life Projects and Extractivism Edited by Cecilie Vindal Ødegaard and Juan Javier Rivera Andía Palgrave Macmillan, 2019 (ebook, open access) Exploring indigenous life in encounters with extractivism, Indigenous Life Projects and Extrativism discusses how current turbulences actualise questions of indigeneity, difference and ontological dynamics in the Andes and...
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Sentient Lands: Indigeneity, Property, and Political Imagination in Neoliberal Chile By Piergiorgio di Giminiani University of Arizona Press, 2018 Sentient Lands is a historically grounded ethnography of the Mapuche people’s engagement with state-run reconciliation and land-restitution efforts. Piergiorgio Di Giminiani analyzes environmental relations, property, state power, market forces, and...
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The Club-Fighters of the Amazon Warfare among the Kayapo Indians of Central Brazil By Gustaaf Verswijver Turuti Books, 2018 (new edition of Gustaaf Verswijver's 1992 monograph) First published in 1992, The Club-Fighters of the Amazona has been described by Laura Rival (University of Oxford) as “an invaluable contribution to Kayapo ethnography”....
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