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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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.
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 …
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 …
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…
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…
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 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…
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…
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…
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…
The review considers the book Carto(corpo)grafías, edited by Fernanda Bustamante Escalona and Lorena Amaro Castro, which collects a set of studies related to contemporary Latin American women’s narrative.
Este artículo analiza las trasformaciones socioculturales, materiales y simbólicas protagonizadas por los bateyes dominicanos en La Española, lugar del primer desembarco de los colonizadores europeos en América, así como centro del sistema de plantacio…
Confluenze. Rivista di Studi Iberoamericani
Entre 1936 y 1940, la gestión del declarado filofascista Manuel Antonio Fresco como gobernador de la provincia de Buenos Aires implicó grandes cambios en las prácticas y discursos que guiaron la gestión de la principal provincia argentina. La educación…
Partendo dalla descrizione etnografica di un evento recente —un incidente stradale nel luglio del 2022 — l’articolo analizza il processo di meccanizzazione dei mondi indigeni e, in particolare, delle conseguenze pratiche della diffusione delle motocicl…
Questo articolo propone una rilettura del romanzo Manhã Submersa (1954) di Vergílio Ferreira come un’allegoria del Salazarismo. Andando alla ricerca di quelle isotopie semantiche che corroborino tale interpretazione, si mostrerà quanto ciò che l’autore…
El presente artículo analiza las manifestaciones sobre la pulsión de muerte en la obra Extracción de la piedra de locura (1968), de Alejandra Pizarnik. Cuando la poeta argentina selecciona los poemas que conforman el título, recoge textos elaborados en…
This article examines the prolonged post-conflict dynamics in Guatemala’s Ixil region, focusing on the 2022 assault on the Alcaldía Indígena of Nebaj. Through an ethnographic lens, it highlights how neoliberal decentralization, multicultural reforms, a…
This article discusses current expressions violence in Central America based on the foundational book “Harvest of Violence in Guatemala” edited by Robert M. Carmack in 1988, and the panel “Central America beyond post-conflict: making and unmaking conte…
Me interesa analizar la réplica como elemento condensador de la escena de encuentro entre artista cubano y nicaragüense. A la vez me propongo comprender las prácticas artísticas como productoras de relaciones de intercambio destotalizantes. Argumento q…
En abril de 2018, en Nicaragua se produjo un estallido social con multitudinarias protestas que sorprendieron al gobierno porque expresaban un descontento que antes no se percibía tan extendido ni profundo. Los primeros análisis argumentaron que era im…
This essay contemplates generation and memory in the recent history of El Salvador. At its core are stories shared by a rising generation of young, middle-class activists with little or no direct memory of the 1980-1992 civil war — and their parents, w…
Este artículo analiza la primera presidencia de Nayib Bukele quien, en 2019, ganó las elecciones presidenciales de El Salvador, poniendo fin a la alternancia política de los dos grandes partidos surgidos de los acuerdos de paz de Chapultepec en 1992. S…
Centroamérica ha sido interpretada a través de la categoría de “postconflicto”, una categoría que ha agotado su potencial analítico. A partir de los casos presentados en el dossier, este artículo propone interpretar las transformaciones que afectan a e…
The Argyle diamond mine, in the East Kimberley region of Western Australia, ceased production in late 2020 after 37 years of operations and producing 865 million carats of rough diamonds. Opening in 1983, it was the first major diamond-mining operation…