The life and death of a minke whale in the Amazon : dispatches from the Brazilian rainforest /
Zuker, Fábio,
The life and death of a minke whale in the Amazon : dispatches from the Brazilian rainforest / Fábio Zuker ; translated from the Portuguese by Ezra E. Fitz. - First edition. - 205 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm
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 bus terminal overpass -- The self-demarcation of Tupinambá indigenous land in the lower Tapajós River basin -- Anamã : six months underwater, six months on dry land -- The poison fields -- "Nature herself is drying up" : a quilombo on the Marajó Archipelago feels the impact of rice paddies amid turbulent times -- The Kumuã of the upper Rio Negro and the decolonization of indigenous bodies -- Between the festival and the fight : the life of the first indigenous person in Brazil to die from COVID-19 -- In the midst of a pandemic, Belo Monte is suffocating the Xingu -- Epilogue: Writing nearby.
"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"--
In English, translated from the Portuguese.
9781571311818 1571311815
40031236049
2021011585
GBC277807 bnb
020572949 Uk
Rain forest conservation--Amazon River Region.
Rain forests--Brazil.
Essays.
The life and death of a minke whale in the Amazon : dispatches from the Brazilian rainforest / Fábio Zuker ; translated from the Portuguese by Ezra E. Fitz. - First edition. - 205 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm
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 bus terminal overpass -- The self-demarcation of Tupinambá indigenous land in the lower Tapajós River basin -- Anamã : six months underwater, six months on dry land -- The poison fields -- "Nature herself is drying up" : a quilombo on the Marajó Archipelago feels the impact of rice paddies amid turbulent times -- The Kumuã of the upper Rio Negro and the decolonization of indigenous bodies -- Between the festival and the fight : the life of the first indigenous person in Brazil to die from COVID-19 -- In the midst of a pandemic, Belo Monte is suffocating the Xingu -- Epilogue: Writing nearby.
"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"--
In English, translated from the Portuguese.
9781571311818 1571311815
40031236049
2021011585
GBC277807 bnb
020572949 Uk
Rain forest conservation--Amazon River Region.
Rain forests--Brazil.
Essays.