TY - BOOK AU - Zuker,Fábio AU - Fitz,Ezra E. AU - Zuker,Fábio TI - The life and death of a minke whale in the Amazon: dispatches from the Brazilian rainforest SN - 9781571311818 PY - 2022/// CY - Minneapolis, Minnesota PB - Milkweed Editions KW - Rain forest conservation KW - Amazon River Region KW - Rain forests KW - Brazil KW - Essays KW - lcgft N1 - 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 N2 - "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"-- ER -