Amazonia : anthology as cosmology /

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Imprint:	London : Sternberg Press, [2021] ©2021
Description:	349 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps (some color) ; 26 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Natural history -- Amazon River Region. Human ecology -- Amazon River Region. Nature -- Effect of human beings on -- Amazon River Region. Human ecology. Natural history. Nature -- Effect of human beings on. Amazon River Region -- Pictorial works. Amazon River Region. Pictorial works.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12742068

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Varying Form of Title:	Anthology as cosmology
Other authors / contributors:	Botanova, Kateryna, editor. Latimer, Quinn, editor.
ISBN:	9783956796111 395679611X
Notes:	"This publication accompanies CULTURESCAPES 2021 Amazonia festival (September 29-December 3, 2021)"--Colophon. Includes bibliographical references.
Summary:	"To accompany the 2021 Amazonia Festival edition, CULTURESCAPES publishes Amazonia: Anthology as Cosmology, a book devoted to Amazonia, its peoples, allies, and nonhuman spirits, and their myriad material and immaterial practices, from certain cosmopolitics and visual languages to past and present forms of resistance. In all their various lines (and circles) of ecological and epistemological thought, the artists, elders, writers, theorists, shamans, curators, poets, and activists whose ideas, images, and struggles comprise this book, are concerned with Amazonia as both a place and a point of view. Through their weave of voices, myths, ancestors, and territories, and all their radical subjectivities, we understand language in this anthology in an extended sense: as testimony, textile, painting, river, forest, animal, ancestor, song, spirit, and sacred medicine. Amazonia: Anthology as Cosmology enquires into decolonial feminisms and Indigenous temporalities, externalized memory and erasure, sacred plants in the shadow of pandemic, corporate-state extractivism and systemic violence, the activist possibilities of the mythic imagination, and the common visual matrixes of the Amazonian universe. The anthology also weighs the Western imaginary of the Amazon, both its colonial roots in racial capitalism, and its corporate, technological, paternalistic present. Centered, however, is Amazonia itself, in all its many and numinous worlds and languages--visual, oral, botanical, ancestral, cosmological--by which it becomes narrated, passed on, and then narrated again."--From publisher.

Table of Contents:

Introduction
Forest
Our Worlds Are at War
Artworks
Ignored, Simulated, Exploited
Cosmopolites of the Living
A Restless Painter: The Work of Shoyan Shëca (Roldán Pinedo)
The Crystal Forest: Notes on the Ontology of Amazonian Spirits
Luminous in the Sun: The Cool Botanical Fervor of Abel Rodríguez (Mogaje Guihu)
The Geological Imperative: On the Political Ecology of Amazonia's Deep History
Everything Is Our Territory, We Are Trees that Walk
Amazon and the Amazon
The Umbragiade
River
Serpent River Book
We Feel the Jungle Like We Feel Our Own Skin
The Juruna and the Force House
My Life Is a Continuous Return to the River's Headwaters
Brazilian Black Feminism: Undoing Racial Democracy, Towards a World Ethic with Orixás
Artworks
Introduction
Coloniality of Power, Eurocentrism, and Latin America
Remote Sensations: A Critical Cartography of Remote Sensing knowbotiq
River Poems
The Artivism of the Amazonian Mythic Imagination
The Falling Sky: Words of a Yanomarni Shaman
Photographs
Introduction
Biographies
Colophon

Amazonia : anthology as cosmology /

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