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Ethnicity in Ancient Amazonia
Reconstructing Past Identities from Archaeology, Linguistics, and Ethnohistory
by Alf Hornborg (Editor) , Jonathan D. Hill (Editor)
A transdisciplinary collaboration among ethnologists, linguists, and archaeologists, Ethnicity in Ancient Amazonia traces the emergence, expansion, and decline of cultural identities in indigenous Amazonia. Hornborg and Hill argue that the tendency to link language, culture, and biology--essentialist notions of ethnic identities--is a Eurocentric bias that has characterized largely inaccurate explanations of the distribution of ethnic groups and languages in Amazonia. The evidence, however, suggests a much more fluid relationship among geography, language use, ethnic identity, and genetics. In Ethnicity in Ancient Amazonia, leading linguists, ethnographers, ethnohistorians, and archaeologists interpret their research from a unique nonessentialist perspective to form a more accurate picture of the ethnolinguistic diversity in this area. Revealing how ethnic identity construction is constantly in flux, contributors show how such processes can be traced through different ethnic markers such as pottery styles and languages. Scholars and students studying lowland South America will be especially interested, as will anthropologists intrigued by its cutting-edge, interdisciplinary approach.
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The ArtsOctober 2015OCCUPIED AMAZONIA
by João Farkas
The more than two hundred photographs featured in the book Occupied Amazonia stem from the concise and keen eye of the photographer João Farkas, who traveled deep into the Amazon region between the 1980s and 1990s to expose the clichés about the Brazilian North rooted in popular imagination. A space of conflicts and convergences, the Amazon region is revealed in multiple facets, ranging from prospectors to natives, missionaries, land-grabbers and migrants. With texts by Paulo Herkenhoff, Ricardo Lessa, Lilia Moritz Schwarcz and Farkas himself, the book is a challenging invitation for those willing to rediscover and explore new old worlds.
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Graphic novelsThe Last Detective
Redemption
by Claudio Alvarez, Geraldo Borges
After 20 years, detective Joe Santos is forced to return to investigate a series of crimes that have covered New Amazonia with death. Will Santos solve this time the mystery that ended his career, crushed his body and caused the death of his partner?
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Adventure stories (Children's/YA)July 2018THE DIARY OF GIOVANA’S FANTASTIC TRIPS
by D. J. Galvão
Giovana is a 10-year-old girl, her father's second marriage child. He has an older sister, from his father’s first marriage. On a trip to the Amazon, she meets an Indian who works at the hotel where they were staying, and he takes her to meet his grandfather - the tribe's shaman. Gigi carries the mark of the tribe's mystical crystals guardian and receives the custody of such treasury from the Shaman. As a guardian, she must find the missing 5 crystals that are part of the 25 Mystical Crystals of this mysterious tribe. Délio offers the young reader a very engaging work, a thriller full of adventure alternated with moments of tenderness and friendship. How could a vacation trip along the banks of the Rio Negro become the greatest experience of their lives? Gigi, Clara and their friends, Lipe and Manu, will tell and delight you with their stories.
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May 2020Hermonos
by De la Vega, Kari; Alzamora, Armando
Mondi, Monalí and Monilú are three very naughty brothers. Papa Mono calls them "beautiful" with affection and advises them everything they have to do to survive in the wild forest.
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August 2019
Don Ignacio Duri Palomeque
by Robin Van Loon y Camila Villalobos
Don Ignacio Duri Palomeque: Stories of a Shaman in the Peruvian Amazon" is the story told by the very voice of master ayahuasca and healer Ignacio Duri Palomeque. In this hybrid text, which mixes testimony, the learning manual and the anecdotal, our character narrates his life story from the first decades of the 20th century, with his arrival in Peru from the Bolivian Amazon; his experience as a shiringuero in the rubber era, a decisive moment when he first learned about Ayahuasca and began his training in shamanism; and his arrival in the native community of Infierno, where he currently lives and has been practicing as a shaman for more than 40 years. The stories that build this text were compiled over a decade, through audio recordings in daily conversations with some of his apprentices. The chapters of the book converge between stories of his intimate life, Ayahuasca ceremonies, secrets, and a wide knowledge of medicinal plants endemic to the Peruvian Amazon and the worldview of the Amazon culture".
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August 2020The Dawn
by Pia Malaussène
The narrator is driving across France to join her brother in the South: she is coming to tell him that their little sister Agnès has just been admitted to Saint-Anne hospital for mentally ill. But it is hard to speak with him who refuses all complicity and who spends his time examining his family tree… Tensions are rising between brother and sister: they have nothing in common but childhood memories, mostly in Guyana, including with Agnès… Agnès whose childish fears have been misunderstood by her older sister, who reproaches herself bitterly for it, whereas the brother retreats into a chilling silence. What really happened in the green paradise of Guyana jungle? What is the family secret which made Agnès mad? Pia Malaussène creates an oppressive, intense and disturbing atmosphere as in equatorial forest… In the heart of it, however, we can see the sweet lights of a possible dawn.
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Literature & Literary StudiesMarch 2020AMAZON MOUTH
Society and culture in Dalcidio Jurandir
by Willi Bolle
This book presents an overview of Amazonian history and analyzes the novel Cycle of the Far North, by Dalcidio Jurandir, a work that represents the social inequality and exclusion inherent to Amazonian society. Willi Bolle rescues the work of this important, albeit unknown, author, emphasizing Dalcidio Jurandir’s contribution to our understanding of Amazonian culture. In his work, Jurandir describes the quotidian of those living in the periphery of society, and advocates, quite emphatically, quality education for the poor. He also registers the social dialect of the inhabitants of the Amazon, in a document of the cultural memory of the region.
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December 2019Retomada
by Pablo Albarenga
Con esta selección fotográfica registrada entre 2016 y 2019, Pablo Albarenga nos adentra en la vida y la lucha de los pueblos indígenas de Brasil por recuperar sus territorios.Muchos son los pueblos originarios que viven en América Latina. Los que se identifican hoy como guaraníes vivieron y transitaron en la región comprendida por Argentina, Bolivia, Brasil, Paraguay y Uruguay. Se dice que si caminamos de Uruguay a Brasil y luego a Bolivia, podríamos dormir cada noche en una tekoá distinta. Las tekoás son aldeas donde preservan su legado ancestral; tekoá significa, en lengua guaraní, la tierra sin mal, el lugar donde se lleva a cabo la forma de ser guaraní.Estos pueblos de tierras bajas han hecho evidente una impactante capacidad para oponerse a eso que llamamos progreso. Son los que han enfrentado con mayor firmeza a las grandes obras y megaproyectos, desde la represa de Belo Monte (Brasil) hasta la carretera que atraviesa el Territorio Indígena y Parque Nacional Isiboro-Sécure (Bolivia).Las retomadas —reocupaciones de tierras indígenas— son un retorno a lo esencial, un acto de rebeldía de los pueblos indígenas de Brasil para volver a unirse con el territorio ancestral. Estos pueblos nos interpelan sobre si somos capaces de reconocer la diferencia, de aceptar la libertad del otro, su derecho a ser y a elegir cómo vivir. Pues en su libertad se evidencian nuevos rumbos posibles que nos obligan a mirarnos en su espejo para repensarnos.
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FictionThe Scent of Orchids
by Mariana García Luna
In the fifties, Raquel and Alejo live the most wonderful love story, but it is a secret. Because of his prejudice, Raquel’s father is opposed to their relationship. One fateful day, they are discovered, which awakens her father’s anger, who will decide to punish the young lovers. The forced separation is imminent; Alejo ends up in the Peruvian Amazon while Raquel seeks asylum in Paris with her grandmother. Within the best tradition of Latinoamerican novel, Mariana García Luna brings us into an oneiric universe where, alongside Raquel and Alejo, Carmina, Nana and Santiago will join their fates, many years later, thanks to a mysterious wedding dress. Each of these characters will narrate the story from their perspective, one of them doing so from the realm of the dead in the shape of a ghost wandering through the rainforest.
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December 2015Lo que saben los wayuu -Tü natüjalakat wayuu
by Alberto Saldarriaga Roa, Leonardo Otálora Cotrino, Guillermo López Acevedo, Carolina Sáchica Moreno.
Tü natüjalakat wayuu: Lo que saben los wayuu es un encuentro de voces en el que confluyen la visión que emerge desde el mundo wayuu y la mirada del blanco (alijuna) respecto a un mismo propósito: destacar la enriquecida cosmovisión de los indígenas wayuu en medio de la realidad a la que se enfrentan como habitantes de uno de los territorios más olvidados de la geografía colombiana, la península de la Guajira.
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Agriculture & farmingJanuary 2013Climate Change and Agricultural Food Production
by Kibria, Golam et.al.
The book ‘Climate Change and Agricultural Food Production: Impacts, Vulnerabilities and Remedies provides an overview of climate change impacts on all agricultural food producing sectors (agriculture, livestock and fisheries), food contamination, and food safety (microbial pathogens, toxic biological & toxic chemical contaminants), food security and climate change adaptation and mitigation measures to counteract or minimise or reduce the effects of climate change on agriculture, livestock and fisheries. It reviews and summarizes research results, data and information from the world including Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, Latin America, North America, Polar Regions and Small Island Nations. The book has been structured as textbook, reference book and extension book and written in simple and plain English with key facts and acronyms and glossary provided in each with tables and figures to benefit a wide range of readeThe key data and information provided in each are highlighted below:
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October 2014Plant Taxonomy and Biosystematics
Classical and Modern Methods
by T.S.Rana, K.N.Nair & D.K.Upreti
The basic aim of this manual is to provide useful resource materials for training young students and faculties working in the area of plant systematics. The manual provides updated information on basic as well as applied aspects of plant systematics on various groups of plants like Algae, Lichens, Bryophytes, Pteridophytes, Gymnosperms and Angiosperms. 1 to 3 describe the various approaches and methods to study microbial and fungal diversity, which is basically a very useful precursor to the students and young researchers. 4 and 5 provide deals with the multi-dimensional approaches in Lichen systematics. The book progresses upwards through the plethora of information on the diversity and systematics of Algae, Bryophytes, Pteridophytes and Gymnosperms ( 6-10). 11 to 15 contain on the plant methodological details identification, approaches and methods of Flora, revision, monograph and development of herbarium. This information is very important for the students and young faculties who intend to pursue their researches in plant taxonomy. 14 and 15 particularly provide all the relevant information on the International Code of Plant nomenclature including cultivated plants. These s per se are very significant for the amateur as well as serious readers of plant taxonomy. Plant taxonomy and biosystematics is a dynamic subject, as it derives information from various other disciplines like palynology, seed morphology, pharmacognosy, molecular biology, etc. We have, therefore, broaden the scope of this book by including the s on palynology, seed morphology, molecular systematics, biostatistics, ecological and remote sensing methods for diversity analyses, and pharmacognostical tools for identification of herbal drugs ( 16-22). The knowledge and information on these applied aspects of biology in relation to taxonomy will certainly infuse the interest in readers, who are pursuing plant taxonomy as their scientific pursuits. 23 and 24 describe the various methods of characterization and evaluation of ornamental and medicinal plants. The last (25) of the book provides the information about CSIR-NBRI Botanic Garden and its various repositories, which could be of great interest to the readers from the perspectives of plant conservation.
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The environmentSeptember 2007Detritus and Decomposition in Ecosystems
by Zafar Reshi & Sumira Tyub:
The present book is a detailed assessment of the pools and fluxes of detritus in aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems. Besides presenting a comprehensive analysis of the process of detritus decomposition, the book gives an exhaustive account of the biotic and abiotic factors affecting the rate of detritus decomposition. Portrayal of the role of decomposition in nutrient cycling and delineation of the contemporary concepts of humus biosynthesis are the noteworthy features of this book. The book would be serve the needs of post-graduate students having Ecology as one of their major subject and researchers engaged in soil biology and biochemistry, soil sciences and ecosystem structure and function.
