Vida e morte de uma baleia-minke no interior do Paraa e outras histaorias da AmazAonia. English
Contents:
Introduction: writing as the projection of worlds - A forest in flames -- Brazilians and Venezualans: a chronicle of hatred and compassion -- The life and death of a minke whale in the Amazon -- An afternoon with Venezualans at the Manaus busterminal overpass -- The self-demarcation of Tupinamba indigenous land in the lower Tapajos River basin -- Anama: six months underwaer, six months on dry land -- the poison fields -- "Nature herself is drying up" a quilombo on the Marajo Archipelago feels the impact of rice paddies amid turbulent times -- The Kumua of the upper Rio Negro and the decolonization of indigenous bodies -- Between the festival and the fight: the life of the first indigenous persin in Brazil to die from COVID-19 -- In the midest of a pandemic, Belo Monte is suffocating the Xingu -- Epilogue: writing nearby.
Summary:
"A collection of essays on life and Indigenous resistance in the Amazon rainforest during an age of raging wildfires, mass migration, populist politics, and increasing deforestation"-- Provided by publisher.
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