As part of the ‘Dom Bruno and the Amazon’ series of events to honour Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira in November 2022, Halton Mill joined with the Continuing Learning Group at Lancaster University to put on five online talks on Wednesday lunchtimes, about different aspects of the Amazon. Here is a list of the talks: read down to see recordings, recommended reading, and links mentioned during the talks. And go to the project webpage www.haltonmill.org.uk/DomBruno to see more information about the other events, recordings of the conference, and a link to the exhibition.
‘A relação política social entre os nawavo e o exterior’ – ‘Social relations between humans and non-humans: Indigenous ways of understanding the world.’ Wednesday 2 November. Indigenous leader Dr Nelly Marubo. In Portuguese with English translation.
‘The political context for the Brazilian Amazon after the October elections’. Wednesday 9 November. Ali Rocha, Brazil Matters with Rebeca Lerer, Smoke Signal, and Jan Rocha.
‘The importance of Amazonian streams for the future of the largest river basin on earth’. Wednesday 16 November. Dr Cecilia Gontijo Leal, Research Fellow, Lancaster University Environment Centre.
‘How bad is the recent wildfire crisis in the Amazon forest?’ Wednesday 23 November. Camila Silva, Research Associate, Lancaster University Environment Centre.
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‘A relação política social entre os nawavo e o exterior’ – ‘Social relations between humans and non-humans: Indigenous ways of understanding the world.’ Wednesday 2 November. Indigenous leader Dr Nelly Marubo. In Portuguese with English translation.
Here is a recording of the talk:
LITERATURE
In response to a request from a participant Nelly has sent three books for you – and I’m also including Nelly’s article that I mentioned during the talk.
Nelly Duarte: Minha vida como estudante no mundo dos broncos (My life as a student in the white world) In Portuguese here and In English here (this is a translationusing Deepl,
Abstract: This text was written due to an invitation to talk about the affirmative action policy for admission to the Postgraduate Program in Social Anthropology of the National Museum of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. As a Marubo indigenous student, I recount in these pages how my admission into non-indigenous society took place. This reflection necessarily involves a presentation of my ethnicity and more specifically my family, the difficult path that led me to study and enter university and finally the ways I found to overcome diverse obstacles. I conclude with an assessment of the importance of affirmative action in postgraduate education and the role of indigenous leaders in this process.
The three recommended books Nelly sent are by Indigenous writers – two published books (which have both been translated into English) and PhD thesis (currently in Portuguese only, has been published this year as a book, also in Portuguese only) . The PhD thesis won the prize for the best PhD thesis at UFAM, the Federal University of Amazonas.
Ideias para adiar o fim do mundo, by Ailton Krenak 2020 (Ideas to Postpone the End of the World). Downloadable Portuguese version here:Purchasable English version at the links below
HERE from the publishers in dollars https://houseofanansi.com/products/ideas-to-postpone-the-end-of-the-world
HERE from Blackwell’s in £ https://blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/product/Ideas-to-Postpone-the-End-of-the-World-by-Ailton-Krenak-Anthony-Doyle-translator/9781487008512
HERE from Amazon in £ https://www.amazon.co.uk/Ideas-Postpone-World-Ailton-Krenak/dp/1487008511
A Queda do Ceu by Davi Kopenawa and Bruce Albert. (2015)
Portuguese version here: https://www.companhiadasletras.com.br/trechos/12959.pdf
English version (The falling sky, words of a Yanomami Shaman) here. https://letrasindomitas.files.wordpress.com/2018/05/2013-davi-kopenawa-bruce-albert-alison-dundy-the-falling-sky_-words-of-a-yanomami-shaman-the-belknap-press-of-harvard-university-press.pdf
NB, the exhibition of engravings of Yanomami body art by award winning Brazilian artist Artur Soar, as part of Halton Mill’s month’s programme about the Amazon, which will be exhibited 5 Nov to 7 Dec 2022 at the premises of Good Things Collective, Morecambe, was inspired by ‘O Queda do Ceu ‘.
‘The political context for the Brazilian Amazon after the October elections’. Wednesday 9 November. Ali Rocha, Brazil Matters, Rebeca Lerer, Smoke Signal, and Jan Rocha.
See a recording of the talk here.
Here are the links mentioned during the talk:
Brazil Matters: email brazilmatters@gmail.com
instagram https://www.instagram.com/brazilmatters/
twitter: https://twitter.com/brazil_matters
facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BrazilMatters
Smoke Signal:
Twitter: https://twitter.com/SmokeSignalBR
Website: https://www.sinaldefumaca.com/en/home-en/
Smoke signal report: The Amazon and the Future of Brazil: a guide – An examination of the region’s nine states between 2018 and 2022
Jan Rocha’s publications:
https://www.waterstones.com/author/jan-rocha/56818
Jan’s latest article on the elections
‘The importance of Amazonian streams for the future of the largest river basin on earth’. Wednesday 16 November. Dr Cecilia Gontijo Leal, Research Fellow, Lancaster University Environment Centre.
See a recording of the talk here.
‘How bad is the recent wildfire crisis in the Amazon forest?’ Wednesday 23 November. Camila Silva, Research Associate, Lancaster University Environment Centre.
See a recording of the talk here
Policy options for a flourishing Amazon. Weds 14 December. Jos Barlow, Professor of Conservation Science, Lancaster University Environment Centre. See a recording of the talk here.
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