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Amazon Lab Reading Group
February 8, 2023 @ 12:00 pm - March 29, 2023 @ 1:30 pm
Join us to discuss readings on the Amazon and related topics from a variety of fields. The group is open to everyone! The group will be led this semester by visiting scholar, Prof. Jamille Pinheiro Dias (Duke University/University of London).
Our focus this semester is The Falling Sky: Words of a Yanomami Shaman by Davi Kopenawa and Bruce Albert. (You can read about the book on the publisher’s website or download a pdf here.)
Dates: Wed. 2/8, Mon. 2/13, Wed. 3/1, Wed., 3/8 , Wed. 3/22, Wed. 3/29 (see below for the readings)
Time: 12:00pm-1:30pm
Location: in-person @ Smith Warehouse – Bay 5, 1st floor, Amazon Lab space
Free pizza will be provided!
Registration required at cutt.ly/amazon2023
Dates and readings (from The Falling Sky: Words of a Yanomami Shaman):
| Session | Date | |
| 1 | Feb 8, Wed | Foreword by Jean Malaurie, “Setting the Scene”, “Words Given”
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| 2 | Feb 13, Mon | “Drawn Words”, “The First Shaman”, “The Spirit and the Forest” |
| 3 | March 1, Wed | “The Xapiri’s Gaze”, “The Animal Ancestors”, “The Initiation” |
| 4 | March 8, Wed | “Outsider Images”, “Becoming a White Man?”, “Earth Eaters”, “Cannibal Gold” |
| 5 | March 22, Wed | “Talking to White People”, “Merchandise Love”, “The Spirit of the Forest” |
| 6 | March 29, Wed | “Words of Omama”, “How This Book Was Written” |
Recommended movies:
Urihi Haromatipë – Curadores da terra-floresta (2014)
Como fotografei os Yanomami (2018)