We will not be saved: a memoir of hope and resistance in the Amazon rainforest
Review: We will not be saved: a memoir of hope and resistance in the Amazon rainforest, by Nemonte Nenquimo and Mitch Anderson. London: Wildfire, 2024. 368 pp., plates.
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Jean Langdon: transformations and perspectives from half a century of research about shamanism
This text reviews some of Jean Langdon’s most important classical and contemporary writings about shamanism, highlighting her key contributions to the area, as well as her relevance to the anthropology of health and Indigenous health policies. The …
“Nós vamos lutar por eles”: a defesa do povo “isolado” Pirititi pelos Waimiri Atroari, Amazonas e Roraima, Brasil
Os Pirititi são um grupo indígena “isolado” pouco conhecido, que ocupa um território altamente ameaçado na divisa entre os estados do Amazonas e Roraima (Brasil), e tem majoritariamente rejeitado todo tipo de contato e encontro. Os Waimiri Atroari …
“We will fight for them”: The defense of the ´isolated´ Piriti people by the Waimiri Atroari, Amazonas and Roraima, Brazil
The Pirititi are a little known ´isolated´ Indigenous group occupying a highly threatened territory on the border between Amazonas and Roraima states in Brazil who have rejected all previous attempts at contact and encounter. The Waimiri Atroari pr…
(Un)worlding with Karipuna’s Shadowy Alliances: the Mirangã and the Isolados
This ethnographically inspired article investigates the ways in which the Karipuna Indigenous people in Rondônia defend their land in the Western Brazilian Amazon against forces of deforestation and dispossession. I focus on the Karipuna’s plurival…
Ratting on the coca spirit or mastering exchange? Andoque negotiations of power and commodification between forest and market
Asserting the importance of analyzing Indigenous involvement in the extraction and trade of nonhuman entities against the backdrop of Amazonian perceptions of personhood, this article investigates the risks and opportunities that coca commercializa…
La escucha de los soplos: Chamanismo y proposiciones ontológicas sobre el lenguaje en el Alto Río Negro, Amazonas
La región del Alto Río Negro-AM es considerada una de las áreas con mayor intensidad de multilingüismo en Brasil e incluso en el mundo. Hay un total de 23 pueblos indígenas que hablan lenguas de las familias lingüísticas arawak, tukano y hup, yuhup…
Bahsé Ahpose: o adocicamento das águas e dos peixes como regeneração da vida no Alto Vaupés, Noroeste Amazônico
Nas paisagens etnográficas do Noroeste Amazônico brasileiro se encontra o Rio Vaupés, na Terra Indígena do Alto Rio Negro, no Município de São Gabriel da Cachoeira. Nessas paisagens, os povos do Vaupés fazem o Bahsé Ahpose, o adocicamento das águas…
“Before, we didn’t eat manioc flour”: Historical and social transformations in food techniques among Indigenous Peoples of the Rio Negro basin in the Brazilian Amazon
Manioc flour is currently considered one of the main foods consumed by Indigenous peoples in the Northwest Amazon. It is fundamental both to the traditional diet and to adding an “Indigenous flavor” to urban dishes. This article presents an analysi…
Revitalizing while transmitting: conversations around “natural birth”practices with Kichwa midwives in Ecuador’s Napo region
Despite its relevance for analyzing many distinctive native imaginaries and societal values, childbirth remains a relatively neglected theme within Amazonianist scholarship. Yet, birthing can be shown to structure contemporary struggles around kins…
Asian Ethnology
precarity emotions secularization Fukushima Pure Land Buddhism Since the triple disaster of 2011, parents in Fukushima Prefecture have been raising their children under a cloud of uncertainty about possible radiation in their environment. This article …
Asian Ethnology
folklore tricksters horror infanticide adaptation retelling violence The Assamese film Kothanodi (2015) radically demonstrates how film adapts to folklore, rather than the other way around. It actively contributes to the folkloric tradition, notably th…
Asian Ethnology
Taiwan material religion Daoism ritual whip craft cultural improvisation Among the most ubiquitous ritual implements in modern Taiwan, the ritual whip functions to dispel demons and to summon spirit soldiers, the material embodiment of a fearsome serpe…
Designing a Training Program for the Civil Justice Network: Lower Northern Thailand
Since 2022, the Thai government has been establishing community justice centers nationwide. The Civil Justice Network (CJN) has played a crucial role in facilitating justice in every sub-district throughout the country. However, practical challenges ha…
Mapping Social Cohesion in Australia: A Decade of Research on National Attitudes and Values
EExisting evidence regarding Australian attitudes and values relating to social cohesion has yet to be comprehensively reviewed. Therefore, there is little understanding of how various programs of research relate to one another, how the information is …
Female Garment Workers in Bangladesh Facing Human Rights Violation; A Search to Find the Root Causes
Among the most important productive sectors of Bangladesh is the garment industry. The total contribution of the garment industries to the national foreign exchange earnings is 83%. Though the garment sector has created substantial employment for femal…
A Wounded Democracy: Analysis of the Determinant Factors of Democratic Backsliding in Brazil
Despite its prominence in the international political landscape and its widespread adoption throughout the world, democracy is seldom a stable regimen, and often repeatedly stressed and tested by attempts to wield autocratic power. Anti-democratic atta…
The Use and Abuse of Internet Spaces: Fitna, desacralization, and conflict in Indonesia’s virtual reality
This article critically examines the utilization and misuse of internet spaces during Indonesia’s political contestations over the past five years, focusing on the emergence of fitna (sedition, strife) in virtual environments. It analyzes how internet …
Enabling the Epistemic Authority of Domestic Violence Survivors in a Work Setting
Domestic violence is a social issue, which can cause immense pain and suffering to people in our community. However, it also presents a challenge to business. How can businesses offer support to domestic violence survivors to navigate an immediate cris…
Call for Papers: Issue 40, Diffraction: Open Call for Current Topics in Visual & Cultural Studies
InVisible Culture
Exhibition Review: “Love Lessons: Tender Loving Care at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston”
Toni Armstrong reviews the Collections Exhibition, Tender Loving Care, at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
Some Remarks upon the Memorial Writing of W.G. Sebald
In two well-known passages from Paul Ricœur’s work (Ricœur 1990b, 187; 2006, 260), the author proposes approaching memorial writing of the Holocaust not necessarily in the same terms as historiography. On the basis of these passages, the aim…
Occupied Spatiality: Non-Peace in Self-Affirmation
Paul Ricœur considered the theme of non-peace in self-affirmation to have such existential and phenomenological bearing that he devoted his intellectual capacity to explore the self that is never immediately present to oneself or at immediat…
Narrative and Violence in Just Institutions
Beginning with images of rampant destruction and violence in our day, Paul Ricœur’s reflections on the political paradox and his “little ethics” (contained in Oneself as Another) are responses to peace and understanding. Ricœur is concerned …
The Narrative Possiblity of Peace and Understanding
With its emphasis on action and new possibilities opened by imagination, Paul Ricœur’s narrative theory offers insights to understanding each other in a world of polarized views. His theory is helpful in describing the potential that narrati…