Uniform title | Vida e morte de uma baleia-minke no interior do Pará e outras histórias da Amazônia. English |
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 underwaer, 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. |
Abstract |
"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. |
Language | In English, translated from the Portuguese. |
Issued in other form | Online version: Zuker, Fábio, The life and death of a minke whale in the Amazon Minneapolis, Minnesota : Milkweed Editions, 2021. 9781571317537 |
Genre/form | essays. |
Genre/form | Essays. |
Genre/form | Essays. |
Genre/form | Essais. |
LCCN | 2021011585 |
ISBN | 9781571311818 paperback |
ISBN | 1571311815 paperback |
ISBN | electronic book |