Covid-19: o cerco se fecha sobre o Xingu Isabel Harari 5-27-20 Dois indígenas Kayapó morreram na última terça feira (26) vítimas de Covid-19 na Terra Indígena Kayapó, no Pará. Bàytum e Tubãrã Kayapó são os primeiros casos de óbitos notificado entre povos indígenas no Corredor Xingu de Diversidade...
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“The Measles from the Time of My Grandfather”: Amazonian Ethnocide Memories in Times of Covid-19 By Carlos Fausto 23 April 2020 "Two weeks ago, Kanari Kuikuro called me from Canarana, a small town in the Brazilian Amazon, where he now lives with his wife and many children. He...
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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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Upper Xingú We gather here three DoBeS projects working on three genetically unrelated languages, belonging to the cultural system of the Upper Xingú area: Kuikuru (Carib), Trumai (isolate), and Aweti (Tupi). The aims of the co-operation among these DoBeS Projects are the organization of comparable corpora...
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Patrick Menget In Memoriam: 1942-2019 Patrick Menget, a student of Claude Lévi-Strauss and the first ethnographer to work with the then-recently contacted Ikpeng people of the Xingu region of Brazil beginning in the late 196os, passed away on April 13 in Budapest. His work on the social and...
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SALSA Statements on the Belo Monte Dam Project The membership of the Society for the Anthropology of Lowland South America (SALSA), a professional association of scholars specializing in Lowland South America, wishes to express its concern regarding the proposed Belo Monte hydroelectric project in the Amazonian...
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