This presentation will analyze some of the enunciative, linguistic and aesthetic complexities of two main genres of ritual song by the Krahô, an Indigenous people who speak a Jê language and who live in the Northwest of the state of Tocantins, in Brazil. The talk will highlight the constitutive diversity of Amerindian vocal poetics (in this case, […]
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This presentation explains the author’s collaborative work carried out with anthropologists from the Federal University of Amazonas and members of the Tucano and Tariano communities, which took place in Cachoeira de Laureté of the Uaupés and Papuri rivers on the Colombian-Brazilian border. The author reflects on the struggles of Indigenous peoples to achieve legal protection […]
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A dialogue about the Amazon and the Yasuní National Park in Ecuador in times of crisis, emphasizing the issues of environmental crisis and climate collapse, where different social problems such as inequality, racism, anthropocentrism and colonialism intersect and how this impacts Indigenous territories. The speakers reflect upon the confrontation of positions regarding what the Amazon […]
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The colloquium is intended as a space to present the progress of recent research and/or fieldwork, with emphasis on the topic of endangered or formally disappeared languages, and to discuss the ethical and methodological implications of this type of research. Taking these issues as a starting point, the meeting aims to encourage a transversal reflection […]
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The Lower Tapajós region, a multi-ethnic territory in western Pará, Brazilian Amazon, is home to 13 Indigenous peoples, numerous traditional riverside communities, and several quilombola communities. This area now faces profound ecological and social upheavals due to the rapid expansion of soy plantations and the infrastructure necessary for grain export. In this talk, I examine […]
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This presentation delves into the journey of Swiss botanist Jacques Huber (1867-1914) and his photographic work in the Amazon, which began in 1895. Huber, who later became the director of one of Brazil’s most prominent natural history museums, the Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi, was part of a generation of botanists who integrated photography into their […]
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Roundtable about different views of the world, with special emphasis on Indigenous cosmologies. Participants: Kaka Werá, Cebaldo Inawinapi, Verenilde Pereira, Juan Carlos Galeano, Francisco Soares, Carla Santos, Carola Saavedra, Patrícia Vieira Moderation: Marta Lança, Ellen Lima e Candela Varas October 19, 11:00 am Tenda Vila Literária, Casa Floresta In collaboration with FOLIO, Óbidos International Literary Festival
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The volume brings together previously published poems, as well as unpublished poetry and aphorisms, by the Amazonian poet Juan Carlos Galeano. Published for the first time in Portuguese, in a bilingual edition, this poetry offers a panorama of the Amazon rainforest and the ties that bind the region’s Indigenous and riverside communities with the more […]
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There are currently around 115 records of indigenous peoples in isolation in Brazil, most of them in the Legal Amazon. Of these records, only a small number have been confirmed and located, meaning that the majority of peoples living in isolation do not have their territory recognized and protected. However, even those peoples who live […]
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In recent years, the relationship between artistic practice and ethnography has led to unprecedented collaborative processes, languages, and research methodologies. Indigenous art and the debates fostered by anthropological disciplines have created new imaginaries to reinvent our world and our relationships with the beings that inhabit it. The “Indigenous Art and Anthropology Week”, a continuation of […]
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