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The Routledge Handbook of Indigenous Development (Hardcover): Katharina Ruckstuhl, John-Andrew McNeish, Nancy Postero, Irma A.... The Routledge Handbook of Indigenous Development (Hardcover)
Katharina Ruckstuhl, John-Andrew McNeish, Nancy Postero, Irma A. Velasquez Nimatuj
R5,867 Discovery Miles 58 670 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book aims to move the discussion out of the western framework and invert it to reveal and promote the indigenous perspective and practices that are currently taking hold globally. For too long Indigenous development has been written about by situating Indigenous peoples in a deficit/dependency persona/contexts and this book seeks to redress this imbalance The book has a broad scope and flows well across multi-disciplinary areas, covering a wide scope of theoretical and applied research examining the challenges experienced around the sub-topics that make up Indigenous development. The only comprehensive volume that brings together the voices, experiences and imaginations of those working and commited to the topic of indigenous development

Making Native American Hunting, Fighting, and Survival Tools - A Fully Illustrated Guide to Creating Arrowheads, Axes, and... Making Native American Hunting, Fighting, and Survival Tools - A Fully Illustrated Guide to Creating Arrowheads, Axes, and Other Early American Implements (Paperback)
Monte Burch
R489 R396 Discovery Miles 3 960 Save R93 (19%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Here is the most comprehensive guide to making your own Native American tools and weapons. This reference takes you through the steps of the basic flint-knapping of arrowheads and scrapers to the most complex decorating and finishing techniques of painting and fletching. Fully illustrated with photographs and line illustrations, this is the perfect book for the survivalist, historian, student, or Native American enthusiast.

Gridiron Capital - How American Football Became a Samoan Game (Paperback): Lisa Uperesa Gridiron Capital - How American Football Became a Samoan Game (Paperback)
Lisa Uperesa
R660 Discovery Miles 6 600 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Since the 1970s, a "Polynesian Pipeline" has brought football players from American Samoa to Hawaii and the mainland United States to play at the collegiate and professional levels. In Gridiron Capital Lisa Uperesa charts the cultural and social dynamics that have made football so central to Samoan communities. For Samoan athletes, football is not just an opportunity for upward mobility; it is a way to contribute to, support, and represent their family, village, and nation. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork, archival research, and media analysis, Uperesa shows how the Samoan ascendancy in football is underpinned by the legacies of US empire and a set of imperial formations that mark Indigenous Pacific peoples as racialized subjects of US economic aid and development. Samoan players succeed by becoming entrepreneurs: building and commodifying their bodies and brands to enhance their football stock and market value. Uperesa offers insights into the social and physical costs of pursuing a football career, the structures that compel Pacific Islander youth toward athletic labor, and the possibilities for safeguarding their health and wellbeing in the future. Duke University Press Scholars of Color First Book Award recipient

Wendy Red Star: Delegation (Hardcover): Wendy Red Star Wendy Red Star: Delegation (Hardcover)
Wendy Red Star; Contributions by Jordan Amirkhani, Julia Bryan-Wilson, Josh T Franco, Annika K Johnson, …
R1,280 Discovery Miles 12 800 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Delegation is the first comprehensive monograph by Apsaalooke/Crow artist Wendy Red Star, whose photography recasts historical narratives with wit, candor, and a feminist, Indigenous perspective. Red Star centers Native American life and material culture through imaginative self-portraiture, vivid collages, archival interventions, and site-specific installations. Whether referencing nineteenth-century Crow leaders or 1980s pulp fiction, museum collections or family pictures, she constantly questions the role of the photographer in shaping Indigenous representation. Including a dynamic array of Red Star's lens-based works from 2006 to the present, and a range of essays, stories, and poems, Delegation is a spirited testament to an influential artist's singular vision. Copublished by Aperture and Documentary Arts

Fragments of Truth - Residential Schools and the Challenge of Reconciliation in Canada (Paperback): Naomi Angel Fragments of Truth - Residential Schools and the Challenge of Reconciliation in Canada (Paperback)
Naomi Angel; Edited by Dylan Robinson, Jamie Berthe
R627 Discovery Miles 6 270 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

In 2008, the Canadian government established a Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) to review the history of the residential school system, a brutal colonial project that killed and injured many Indigenous children and left a legacy of trauma and pain. In Fragments of Truth Naomi Angel analyzes the visual culture of reconciliation and memory in relation to this complex and painful history. In her analyses of archival photographs from the residential school system, representations of the schools in popular media and literature, and testimonies from TRC proceedings, Angel traces how the TRC served as a mechanism through which memory, trauma, and visuality became apparent. She shows how many Indigenous communities were able to use the TRC process as a way to claim agency over their memories of the schools. Bringing to light the ongoing costs of transforming settler states into modern nations, Angel demonstrates how the TRC offers a unique optic through which to survey the long history of colonial oppression of Canada's Indigenous populations.

Tribal Development Report - Livelihoods (Hardcover): Mihir Shah, P S Vijayshankar, Bharat Rural Livelihoods Foundation Tribal Development Report - Livelihoods (Hardcover)
Mihir Shah, P S Vijayshankar, Bharat Rural Livelihoods Foundation
R3,933 Discovery Miles 39 330 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book sheds light on the status of tribal communities in Central India with respect to livelihoods, agriculture, natural resources, economy, and migration. Written by noted academics, thematic experts, and activists, this first-of-its-kind report by the Bharat Rural Livelihoods Foundation brings together case studies, archival research, and exhaustive data on key facets of the lives of Adivasis, the various programs meant for their development, and the policy and systems challenges, to build a better understanding of the Adivasi predicament. This volume, Provides a broad overview of the contemporary macro-economic situation of Adivasi communities, with a special focus on the challenges of agriculture, land, energy, and water use, especially groundwater; Highlights the need to move into a new paradigm of agro-ecology based, nature-positive farming, and sustainable water use, driven by local institutions; Examines the neglect faced by tribal areas in the development of infrastructure in various dimensions, from irrigation to energy; Shares insights on the invisibility of tribal voices in the policy processes, and how political empowerment will enable socio-economic changes for the Adivasis at grassroot levels; Discusses the Adivasi informal sector and the state of migrant workers, whose plight drew national attention during the recent Covid pandemic. Companion to Tribal Development Report: Human Development and Governance, this book will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of indigenous studies, development studies, and South Asian studies.

Kin - Thinking with Deborah Bird Rose (Hardcover): Thom Van Dooren, Matthew Chrulew Kin - Thinking with Deborah Bird Rose (Hardcover)
Thom Van Dooren, Matthew Chrulew
R2,377 Discovery Miles 23 770 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The contributors to Kin draw on the work of anthropologist Deborah Bird Rose (1946-2018), a foundational voice in environmental humanities, to examine the relationships of interdependence and obligation between human and nonhuman lives. Through a close engagement over many decades with the Aboriginal communities of Yarralin and Lingara in northern Australia, Rose's work explored possibilities for entangled forms of social and environmental justice. She sought to bring the insights of her Indigenous teachers into dialogue with the humanities and the natural sciences to describe and passionately advocate for a world of kin grounded in a profound sense of the connectivities and relationships that hold us together. Kin's contributors take up Rose's conceptual frameworks, often pushing academic fields beyond their traditional objects and methods of study. Together, the essays do more than pay tribute to Rose's scholarship; they extend her ideas and underscore her ongoing critical and ethical relevance for a world still enduring and resisting ecocide and genocide. Contributors. The Bawaka Collective, Matthew Chrulew, Colin Dayan, Linda Payi Ford, Donna Haraway, James Hatley, Owain Jones, Stephen Muecke, Kate Rigby, Catriona (Cate) Sandilands, Isabelle Stengers, Anna Tsing, Thom van Dooren, Kate Wright

A Beginner's Guide to Building Better Worlds - Ideas and Inspiration from the Zapatistas (Hardcover): Levi Gahman, Nasha... A Beginner's Guide to Building Better Worlds - Ideas and Inspiration from the Zapatistas (Hardcover)
Levi Gahman, Nasha Mohamed, Filiberto Penados, Johannah-Rae Reyes, Atiyah Mohamed, …
R2,222 Discovery Miles 22 220 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This ambitious book offers radical alternatives to conventional ways of thinking about the planet's most pressing challenges, ranging from alienation and exploitation to state violence and environmental injustice. Bridging real-world examples of resistance and mutual aid in Zapatista territory with big-picture concepts like critical consciousness, social reproduction and decolonisation, the authors encourage readers to view themselves as co-creators of the societies they are a part of - and 'be Zapatistas wherever they are'. Written by a diverse team of first-generation authors, this book offers an emancipatory set of anti-colonial ideas related to both refusing liberal bystanding and collectively constructing better worlds and realities.

Decolonizing "Prehistory - Deep Time and Indigenous Knowledges in North America (Hardcover): Gesa MacKenthun, Christen Mucher Decolonizing "Prehistory - Deep Time and Indigenous Knowledges in North America (Hardcover)
Gesa MacKenthun, Christen Mucher
R1,870 Discovery Miles 18 700 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Sand Talk (Paperback): Yunkaporta Sand Talk (Paperback)
Yunkaporta
R485 R382 Discovery Miles 3 820 Save R103 (21%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Children of the Rainforest - Shaping the Future in Amazonia (Hardcover): Camilla Morelli Children of the Rainforest - Shaping the Future in Amazonia (Hardcover)
Camilla Morelli; Foreword by Roldán Dunú Tumi Dësi; Afterword by Roldán Dunú Tumi Dësi
R3,391 Discovery Miles 33 910 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Children of the Rainforest explores the lives of children growing up in a time of radical change in Amazonia. The book draws on ethnographic fieldwork conducted with the Matses, a group of hunter-gatherer forest dwellers who have lived in voluntary isolation until fairly recently. Having worked with them for over a decade, returning every year to their villages in the rainforest, Camilla Morelli follows closely the life-trajectories of Matses children, watching them shift away from the forest-based lifestyles of their elders and move towards new horizons crisscrossed by concrete paving, lit by the glow of electric lights and television screens, and centered around urban practices and people. The book uses drawings and photographs taken by the children themselves to trace the children’s journeys—lived and imagined—from their own perspectives, proposing an ethnographic analysis that recognizes children’s imaginations, play, and shifting desires as powerful catalysts of social change.

Where White Men Fear to Tread - The Autobiography of Russell Means (Paperback, St Martin's Griffin ed): Russell Means Where White Men Fear to Tread - The Autobiography of Russell Means (Paperback, St Martin's Griffin ed)
Russell Means
R746 R636 Discovery Miles 6 360 Save R110 (15%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Means is the most controversial Indian leader of our time. This is the well-detailed, first-hand story of his life so far, in which he has done everything possible to dramatize and justify the Native American aim of self-determination, such as storming Mount Rushmore, seizing Plymouth Rock, running for President in 1988, and—most notoriously—leading a 71-day takeover of Wounded Knee, South Dakota, in 1973. This visionary autobiography by one of our most magnetic personalities will fascinate, educate, and inspire. As Dee Brown has written, "A reading of Means's story is essential for any clear understanding of American Indians during the last half of the twentieth century."

Traditional Knowledge, Genetic Resources, Customary Law and Intellectual Property - A Global Primer (Hardcover): Paul Kuruk Traditional Knowledge, Genetic Resources, Customary Law and Intellectual Property - A Global Primer (Hardcover)
Paul Kuruk
R4,413 Discovery Miles 44 130 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This global primer surveys international initiatives on traditional knowledge, folklore, cultural heritage and genetic resources, and describes in a comprehensive manner regional and national principles of protection in Asia, Europe, Africa, Oceania, the Middle East, the United States and the Americas. The most innovative parts of the book discuss three key approaches. First, the book highlights the relevance of customary law, describes how it is recognized and applied in legal systems and assesses its effectiveness as an enforcement mechanism. Second, through selected cases, the book illustrates the problem of biopiracy to which the disclosure requirement has been proposed as a policy response. It traces the origins of the disclosure requirement to instruments developed jointly by WIPO and UNESCO. Third, the book proposes a novel approach to protecting traditional knowledge premised on the principle of reciprocity and the use of mutual recognition agreements (MRAs) and assesses the scope of such MRAs. Libraries and universities will find this work is an invaluable resource for scholars and researchers. The material will also be important for government officials and organizations developing policy. Furthermore, the information available in these pages can empower indigenous peoples and local communities looking to promote awareness and protect traditional knowledge.

Minority Rights, Feminism and International Law - Voices of Amazigh Women in Morocco (Paperback): Silvia Gagliardi Minority Rights, Feminism and International Law - Voices of Amazigh Women in Morocco (Paperback)
Silvia Gagliardi
R1,262 Discovery Miles 12 620 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Investigating minority and indigenous women's rights in Muslim-majority states, this book critically examines the human rights regime within international law. Based on extensive and diverse ethnographic research on Amazigh women in Morocco, the book unpacks and challenges generally accepted notions of rights and equality. Significantly, and controversially, the book challenges the supposedly 'emancipatory' power vested in the human rights project; arguing that rights-based discourses are sites of contestation for different groups that use them to assert their agency in society. More specifically, it shows how the very conditions that make minority and indigenous women instrumental to the preservation of their culture may condemn them to a position of subalternity. In response, and engaging the notion and meaning of Islamic feminism, the book proposes that feminism should be interpreted and contextualised locally in order to be effective and inclusive, and so in order for the human rights project to fully realise its potential to empower the marginalised and make space for their voices to be heard. Providing a detailed, empirically based, analysis of rights in action, this book will be of relevance to scholars, students and practitioners in human rights policy and practice, in international law, minorities' and indigenous peoples' rights, gender studies, and Middle Eastern and North African Studies.

The Colonial Politics of Hope - Critical Junctures of Indigenous-State Relations (Hardcover): Marjo Lindroth, Heidi... The Colonial Politics of Hope - Critical Junctures of Indigenous-State Relations (Hardcover)
Marjo Lindroth, Heidi Sinevaara-Niskanen
R3,906 Discovery Miles 39 060 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Through analyses of cases in Australia, Finland, Greenland and elsewhere, this book illuminates how states appropriate hope as a means to stall and circumscribe political processes of recognising the rights of indigenous peoples.

Environmental Justice as Decolonization - Political Contention, Innovation and Resistance Over Indigenous Fishing Rights in... Environmental Justice as Decolonization - Political Contention, Innovation and Resistance Over Indigenous Fishing Rights in Australia, New Zealand, and the United States (Paperback)
Julia Miller Cantzler
R1,236 Discovery Miles 12 360 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book corrects the tendency in scholarly work to leave Indigenous peoples on the margins of discussions of environmental inequality by situating them as central activists in struggles to achieve environmental justice. Drawing from archival and interview data, it examines and compares the historical and contemporary processes through which Indigenous fishing rights have been negotiated in the United States, Australia and New Zealand, where three unique patterns have emerged and persist. It thus reveals the agential dynamics and the structural constraints that have resulted in varying degrees of success for Indigenous communities who are struggling to define the terms of their rights to access traditionally harvested fisheries, while also gaining economic stability through commercial fishing enterprises. Presenting rich narratives of conquest and resistance, domination and resilience, and marginalization and revitalization, the author uncovers the fundamentally cultural, political and ecological dynamics of colonization and explores the key mechanisms through which Indigenous assertions of rights to natural resources can systematically transform enduring political and cultural vestiges of colonization. A study of environmental justice as a fundamental ingredient in broader processes of decolonization, Environmental Justice as Decolonization will appeal to scholars of sociology, anthropology, environmental studies, law and Indigenous studies.

The Sami World (Hardcover): Sanna Valkonen, Aile Aikio, Saara Alakorva, Sigga-Marja Magga The Sami World (Hardcover)
Sanna Valkonen, Aile Aikio, Saara Alakorva, Sigga-Marja Magga
R6,453 Discovery Miles 64 530 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book provides a comprehensive and multifaceted analysis of the Sami society and its histories and people, offering valuable insights into how they live and see the world. The chapters examine a variety of social and cultural practices, and consideration is given to environment, legal and political conditions and power relations. The contributions by a range of experts of Sami studies and Indigenous scholars are drawn from across the Sapmi region, which spans from central Norway and central Sweden across Finnish Lapland to the Kola Peninsula in Russia. Sami perspectives, concepts and ways of knowing are foregrounded throughout the volume. The material connects with wider discussions within Indigenous studies and engages with current concerns relating to globalization, environmental and cultural change, Arctic politics, multiculturalism, postcolonialism and neoliberalism. The Sami World will be of interest to scholars from a number of disciplines, including Indigenous studies, anthropology, sociology, geography, history and political science.

God, War, and Providence - The Epic Struggle of Roger Williams and the Narragansett Indians against the Puritans of New England... God, War, and Providence - The Epic Struggle of Roger Williams and the Narragansett Indians against the Puritans of New England (Paperback)
James A. Warren
R490 R404 Discovery Miles 4 040 Save R86 (18%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The tragic and fascinating history of the first epic struggle between white settlers and Native Americans in the early seventeenth century: "a riveting historical validation of emancipatory impulses frustrated in their own time" (Booklist, starred review) as determined Narragansett Indians refused to back down and accept English authority. A devout Puritan minister in seventeenth-century New England, Roger Williams was also a social critic, diplomat, theologian, and politician who fervently believed in tolerance. Yet his orthodox brethren were convinced tolerance fostered anarchy and courted God's wrath. Banished from Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1635, Williams purchased land from the Narragansett Indians and laid the foundations for the colony of Rhode Island as a place where Indian and English cultures could flourish side by side, in peace. As the seventeenth century wore on, a steadily deepening antagonism developed between an expansionist, aggressive Puritan culture and an increasingly vulnerable, politically divided Indian population. Indian tribes that had been at the center of the New England communities found themselves shunted off to the margins of the region. By the 1660s, all the major Indian peoples in southern New England had come to accept English authority, either tacitly or explicitly. All, except one: the Narragansetts. In God, War, and Providence "James A. Warren transforms what could have been merely a Pilgrim version of cowboys and Indians into a sharp study of cultural contrast...a well-researched cameo of early America" (The Wall Street Journal). He explores the remarkable and little-known story of the alliance between Roger Williams's Rhode Island and the Narragansett Indians, and how they joined forces to retain their autonomy and their distinctive ways of life against Puritan encroachment. Deeply researched, "Warren's well-written monograph contains a great deal of insight into the tactics of war on the frontier" (Library Journal) and serves as a telling precedent for white-Native American encounters along the North American frontier for the next 250 years.

Chippewa Customs (Hardcover, New ed of 1929 ed): Frances Densmore Chippewa Customs (Hardcover, New ed of 1929 ed)
Frances Densmore
R614 R513 Discovery Miles 5 130 Save R101 (16%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

An authoritative source for the tribal history, customs, legends, traditions, art, music, economy, and leisure activities of the Ojibwe people.

Indians in Color - Native Art, Identity, and Performance in the New West (Paperback): Norman K Denzin Indians in Color - Native Art, Identity, and Performance in the New West (Paperback)
Norman K Denzin
R1,115 Discovery Miles 11 150 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

In Indians in Color, noted cultural critic Norman K. Denzin addresses the acute differences in the treatment of artwork about Native America created by European-trained artists compared to those by Native artists. In his fourth volume exploring race and culture in the New West, Denzin zeroes in on painting movements in Taos, New Mexico over the past century. Part performance text, part art history, part cultural criticism, part autoethnography, he once again demonstrates the power of visual media to reify or resist racial and cultural stereotypes, moving us toward a more nuanced view of contemporary Native American life. In this book, Denzin-contrasts the aggrandizement by collectors and museums of the art created by the early 20th century Taos Society of Artists under railroad sponsorship with that of indigenous Pueblo painters;-shows how these tensions between mainstream and Native art remains today; and-introduces a radical postmodern artistic aesthetic of contemporary Native artists that challenges notions of the "noble savage."

The Swahili-Speaking Peoples of Zanzibar and the East African Coast (Arabs, Shirazi and Swahili) - East Central Africa Part XII... The Swahili-Speaking Peoples of Zanzibar and the East African Coast (Arabs, Shirazi and Swahili) - East Central Africa Part XII (Paperback)
A.H.J. Prins
R1,146 Discovery Miles 11 460 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Routledge is proud to be re-issuing this landmark series in association with the International African Institute. The series, published between 1950 and 1977, brings together a wealth of previously un-co-ordinated material on the ethnic groupings and social conditions of African peoples. Concise, critical and (for its time) accurate, the Ethnographic Survey contains sections as follows: Physical Environment Linguistic Data Demography History & Traditions of Origin Nomenclature Grouping Cultural Features: Religion, Witchcraft, Birth, Initiation, Burial Social & Political Organization: Kinship, Marriage, Inheritance, Slavery, Land Tenure, Warfare & Justice Economy & Trade Domestic Architecture Each of the 50 volumes will be available to buy individually, and these are organized into regional sub-groups: East Central Africa, North-Eastern Africa, Southern Africa, West Central Africa, Western Africa, and Central Africa Belgian Congo. The volumes are supplemented with maps, available to view on routledge.com or available as a pdf from the publishers.

The Shona and Ndebele of Southern Rhodesia - Southern Africa Part IV (Paperback): Hilda Kuper, A. J. B. Hughes, J. van Velsen The Shona and Ndebele of Southern Rhodesia - Southern Africa Part IV (Paperback)
Hilda Kuper, A. J. B. Hughes, J. van Velsen
R1,114 Discovery Miles 11 140 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Routledge is proud to be re-issuing this landmark series in association with the International African Institute. The series, published between 1950 and 1977, brings together a wealth of previously un-co-ordinated material on the ethnic groupings and social conditions of African peoples. Concise, critical and (for its time) accurate, the Ethnographic Survey contains sections as follows: Physical Environment Linguistic Data Demography History & Traditions of Origin Nomenclature Grouping Cultural Features: Religion, Witchcraft, Birth, Initiation, Burial Social & Political Organization: Kinship, Marriage, Inheritance, Slavery, Land Tenure, Warfare & Justice Economy & Trade Domestic Architecture Each of the 50 volumes will be available to buy individually, and these are organized into regional sub-groups: East Central Africa, North-Eastern Africa, Southern Africa, West Central Africa, Western Africa, and Central Africa Belgian Congo. The volumes are supplemented with maps, available to view on routledge.com or available as a pdf from the publishers.

Indigenous Media Activism in Argentina (Hardcover): Francesca Belotti Indigenous Media Activism in Argentina (Hardcover)
Francesca Belotti
R1,530 Discovery Miles 15 300 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Exploring Indigenous activism through the lens of media practices, this book examines the Indigenous media that has emerged in Argentina since the introduction of legislation in 2009 intended to promote diversity and access in radio and television media production. Francesca Belotti provides insights into the political and cultural matrix, attitudes of resistance and empowerment, and the outward and inward direction of Indigenous activism by unpacking the media practices that unfold in Indigenous radio and television stations in Argentina. The theoretical framework combines studies on indigeneity, social/decolonial movements and media practices, and draws on interviews conducted with Indigenous media practitioners from different Indigenous populations around Argentina. The book examines how media practices can help support and sustain Indigenous political and cultural activism and the process of identity self-ascription. It also addresses the complex negotiation between indigenizing media and assimilating the mainstream, as well as coping with other practical constraints. This book will be of interest both to students and scholars of Indigenous Studies, Decolonial and Postcolonial Studies, Cultural Studies, Latin American Studies, Media Studies, and Social Movements, as well as media activists and practitioners globally.

Sebastiao Salgado. Amazonia (Hardcover): Sebastiao Salgado Sebastiao Salgado. Amazonia (Hardcover)
Sebastiao Salgado; Edited by Lelia Wanick Salgado
R3,208 R2,477 Discovery Miles 24 770 Save R731 (23%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Sebastiao Salgado traveled the Brazilian Amazon and photographed the unparalleled beauty of this extraordinary region for six years: the forest, the rivers, the mountains, the people who live there-an irreplaceable treasure of humanity. In the book's foreword Salgado writes: "For me, it is the last frontier, a mysterious universe of its own, where the immense power of nature can be felt as nowhere else on earth. Here is a forest stretching to infinity that contains one-tenth of all living plant and animal species, the world's largest single natural laboratory." Salgado visited a dozen indigenous tribes that exist in small communities scattered across the largest tropical rainforest in the world. He documented the daily life of the Yanomami, the Ashaninka, the Yawanawa, the Suruwaha, the Zo'e, the Kuikuro, the Waura, the Kamayura, the Korubo, the Marubo, the Awa, and the Macuxi-their warm family bonds, their hunting and fishing, the manner in which they prepare and share meals, their marvelous talent for painting their faces and bodies, the significance of their shamans, and their dances and rituals. Sebastiao Salgado has dedicated this book to the indigenous peoples of Brazil's Amazon region: "My wish, with all my heart, with all my energy, with all the passion I possess, is that in 50 years' time this book will not resemble a record of a lost world. Amazonia must live on." INSTITUTO TERRA Founded in 1998 at Aimores in the state of Minas Gerais, Instituto Terra is the culmination of Lelia Wanick Salgado and Sebastiao Salgado's lifelong activism and work as cultural documentarians. Through a scientific program of planting and raising saplings, the organization has performed a miraculous reforestation of the once infertile region and furthered the Salgados' mission of reversing the damage done to our planet. TASCHEN is proud to reach carbon zero status through our continued partnership. Also available in a Collector's Edition and four Art Editions, each with a signed silver gelatin print, all with a book stand designed by Renzo Piano.

Highway of Tears - A True Story of Racism, Indifference, and the Pursuit of Justice for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women... Highway of Tears - A True Story of Racism, Indifference, and the Pursuit of Justice for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls (Hardcover)
Jessica McDiarmid
R771 R642 Discovery Miles 6 420 Save R129 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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