For the West, Amazonia has been, over the centuries, a blank canvas upon which diverse conceptions of the natural world are projected: a Paradise already lost to the rest of the world; an El Dorado of fabulous riches; a territory of unsuspected dangers; the last redoubt of a wild nature; an area where unbridled extractivism […]
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Rivers are central to the existence of Amazonian populations, playing a key role in the way Indigenous and riverside communities get nourishment, travel and trade. The imaginary of these communities is determined by close contact with rivers, which are often equated with giant snakes, considered a source of life in local cosmologies. At the same […]
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In the last decades, several academic disciplines have undergone a process of restructuring triggered both by a deepening climatic and environmental crisis and by anti-colonial and anti-racist protests throughout the world. In Latin America, the increasingly important role of Indigenous and Maroon peoples, as well as of several other traditional communities, in politics and in […]
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