Winner of the prestigious Casa de las Américas Prize, this work spins a heartfelt story of an improbable relationship between an anthropologist and her charismatic Indigenous father.
When Aparecida Vilaça first traveled down the remote Negro River in Amazonia, she expected to come back with notebooks and tapes full of observations about the Indigenous Wari people but not with a new father. In
Paletó and Me, Vilaça shares her life with her adoptive Wari family, and the profound personal transformations involved in becoming kin.
Paletó unfailingly charming, always prepared with a joke shines with life in Vilaca s account of their unusual father-daughter relationship. Paletó was many things: he was a survivor, who lived through the arrival of violent invaders and diseases. He was a leader, who taught through laughter and care, spoke softly, yet was always ready to jump into the unknown. He could shift seamlessly between the roles of the observer and the observed, and in his
No social distancing in borderless Amazonia
January 12, 2021CNRS
What would have happened if Covid-19 had appeared in the Amazon rainforest 1,000 years ago? For an archaeologist, this is a question worth considering. Indeed, like its counterparts in Africa and Asia, the humid jungle of Amazonia is a potential hotbed of unknown viruses that only need a chance to hatch before spreading around the globe. All ecosystems that have been transformed by human activity are susceptible to the development of new diseases. The incredible diversity of life forms in tropical zones further increases the risk of unexpected zoonoses (infections of animal origin) suddenly emerging from South America’s vast forest regions. The agents conveying such poisoned gifts are just as varied, ranging from voracious vampire bats silently biting their prey at night to vertebrate game species coveted for their tasty meat, or even a sweet little animal adopted as a pet, like a monkey or a parrot, which could b
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Emicida, credit: Júla Rodrigues, 2020
Racial justice brought people out of their homes and into the streets
across the world in 2020 and the Brazilian MC and social activist
Emicida looks to keep the conversation going. He just released a
documentary on Netflix,
AmarElo:
It’s All For Yesterday
,
that is both a fascinating
history lesson about samba and a reflection on social and racial
equality in Brazil.
(Forgive this trailer all in Portuguese there are English subtitles on Netflix.)
The
documentary is framed around a concert held at the Teatro
Municipal in São Paulo that featured Emicida and all of his