Indigenous forest guardian and defender of isolated peoples Beto Marubo sends a powerful message to elite academic community during recent conference at Yale University. Shown here with journalist Scott Wallace and yrs truly.
#CfP for the summer school "The Cultural Space of #amazonia Encounter – Exchange – Controversy", which will take place at the Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz (JGU) on July 23-26, 2024.
International police are finally tracking down the thieves who stole a cache of rare books worth nearly $1 million from the Goeldi Museum in Brazil in 2008, and returning these precious historical works to the museum.
Narcos, shamans, clean water and the awakening of the Matsigenka Nation: "In Search of Yomibato" is an in-depth report by Martin Ibarrola about the new indigenous realities in Manu National Park in Peru, with support from the Pulitzer Center (and some cameo anthropologizing by yrs truly!)
Parabéns para Fabricio Gatagon Surui do povo Paiter Surui por vencer mais essa etapa na sua trajetória, passando com aprovação unânime na sua aula de qualificação no Programa de Pós-graduação em Diversidade Sociocultural do Museu Goeldi rumo a se tornar o primeiro mestre indígena em etnoprimatologia no Brasil senão na Amazônia.
Congratulations to Fabrício Gatagon Surui of the Paiter Surui people for passing his qualifying exam with flying colors in the Goeldi Museum graduate program in Sociocultural Diversity, and soon to become the first indigenous Master of ethnoprimatology in Brazil, if not in the Amazon!
Here is a remembrance of Steve Jobs I posted 12 years ago upon his passing, commenting on the legacy that his style of portable, user-friendly electronics have left on indigenous peoples of the Amazon. Far from being overwhelmed by the digital world, they have found innovative ways to use these tools to defend and promote their own culture and political struggles.
Juliano Moraes, my former master's student in the Ecology program at INPA in Manaus, has won the Brazilian national thesis award from CAPES for his PhD dissertation at USP on the influence of indigenous management practices of the Zoe people on forest ecology in their territory.