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.
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!)
President Lula vetoes the "Time Frame" law passed by the Brazilian Senate that would have undermined indigenous claims to land occupied prior to the ratification of the current Brazilian Constitution in October 1988. The veto could still be overturned by a majority vote in both houses of Congress.
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.
Accused murderers of Brazilian indigenous activist Bruno Pereira and journalist Dom Phillips, both personal friends of mine, will remain in prison without bail awaiting a jury trial
"In a recent interview with the New Yorker Keyuk [a Selk'nam pop artist] explains the etymology of the group’s name: “The word ‘Selk’nam’ can mean ‘We are equal,’… though it can also mean ‘we are separate.’” Martin Gusinde’s camera captures the essence of this fundamental enigma of the ethnographic encounter."
-- Excerpt from my commentary for the New York Review of Books on 'The Lost Tribes of Tierra del Fuego', a collection of historical photographs by Austrian missionary-ethnographer Martin Gusinde
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.