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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.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Original language: Portuguese Publisher: Minneapolis, Minnesota : Milkweed Editions, 2022Copyright date: ©2022Edition: First editionDescription: 205 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781571311818
  • 1571311815
Uniform titles:
  • Vida e morte de uma baleia-minke no interior do Pará e outras histórias da Amazônia. English
Related works:
  • Translation of: Zuker, Fábio. Vida e morte de uma baleia-minke no interior do Pará e outras histórias da Amazônia
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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 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.
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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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

As the Amazon burns, Fábio Zuker shares stories of resistance, self-determination, and kinship with the land.

In 2007, a seven-ton minke whale was found stranded on the banks of the Tapajós River, hundreds of miles into the Amazon rainforest. For days, environmentalists, journalists, and locals followed the lost whale, hoping to guide her back to the ocean, but ultimately proved unable to save her. Ten years later, journalist Fábio Zuker travels to the state of Pará, to the town known as "the place where the whale appeared," which developers are now eyeing for mining, timber, and soybean cultivation.

In these essays, Zuker shares intimate stories of life in the rainforest and its surrounding cities during an age of raging wildfires, mass migration, populist politics, and increasing deforestation. As a group of Venezuelan migrants wait at a bus station in Manaus, looking for a place more stable than home, an elder in Alter do Chão becomes the first Indigenous person in Brazil to die from COVID-19 after years of fighting for the rights and recognition of the Borari people.
The subjects Zuker interviews are often torn between ties with their ancestral territories and the push for capitalist gain; The Life and Death of a Minke Whale in the Amazon captures the friction between their worlds and the resilience of movements for autonomy, self-definition, and respect for the land that nourishes us.

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"-- Provided by publisher.

In English, translated from the Portuguese.

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