Amazonia

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Caleb Everett
A Myriad of Tongues: How Languages Reveal Differences in How We Think
"An assured guide" (New Scientist) to the relationship between the language we speak and our perception of such fundamentals of experience as time, space, color, and smells. We tend to assume that all languages categorize ideas and objects similarly, reflecting our common human experience. But th...
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Blanca Muratorio
The Life and Times of Grandfather Alonso: Culture and History in the Upper Amazon (Hegemony and Experience)
In Blanca Muratorio's book, we are introduced to Rucuyaya Alonso, an elderly Quichua Indian of the Upper Ecuadorean Amazon. Alonso is a hunter, but like most Quichuas, he has done other work as well, bearing loads, panning gold, tapping rubber trees, and working for Shell Oil. He tells of his work, ...
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Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald
The Cambridge Handbook of Linguistic Typology (Cambridge Handbooks in Language and Linguistics)
Linguistic typology identifies both how languages vary and what they all have in common. This Handbook provides a state-of-the art survey of the aims and methods of linguistic typology, and the conclusions we can draw from them. Part I covers phonological typology, morphological typology, sociolingu...
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Everett
Numbers and the Making of Us: Counting and the Course of Human Cultures
“A fascinating book.” ―James Ryerson, New York Times Book Review A Smithsonian Best Science Book of the Year Winner of the PROSE Award for Best Book in Language & Linguistics Carved into our past and woven into our present, numbers shape our perceptions of the world far more than we th...
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Brendan Sainsbury
Cuba 8 (inglés) (Lonely Planet)
Timeworn but magnificent, dilapidated but dignified, fun yet maddeningly frustrating - Cuba is a country of indefinable magic. .Inspirational images, 3D illustrations, city walks and recommendations from our expert authors. .Planning features and top itineraries to help you plan the perfect trip .Lo...
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Dr. Mauricio Albanes
KAMBO: la Vacuna de la Selva Amazonica (Spanish Edition)
En este fascinante viaje por las profundidades de la medicina ancestral amazónica, el Dr. Mauricio Albanés nos ofrece una visión integral del Kambo, la secreción de la rana Phyllomedusa bicolor, conocida por sus propiedades curativas. El libro presenta un enfoque único, combinando la experienci...
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Alexis Rivas Toledo
ANTROPOLOGÍA, ECOLOGÍA Y DERECHOS HUMANOS.LOS PUEBLOS INDÍGENAS AISLADOS DEL AMAZONAS. LOS ÚLTIMOS GRUPOS DE YASUNÍ. (Spanish Edition)
Los Pueblos Indígenas Aislados (PIA) son los últimos grupos de hombres y mujeres de la Amazonía sin mayores relaciones con la sociedad nacional ecuatoriana, ya sea por una decisión cultural propia, como por su permanente huida de los efectos que la civilización moderna. Se ubican históricament...
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Gerardo Sanchez
Salud y Biomagnetismo (Spanish Edition)
Recopilación de información científica relacionada al Bio Magnetismo Médico, y su aplicación en Pares Biomagnéticos. Gerardo Sánchez PhD, Divulgador. Doctor en Filosofía. Seleccionado en el año 2009 miembro de la organización Bilmore, Who's Who, entre los profesionales más destacados en l...
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John Hemming
People of the Rainforest: The Villas Boas Brothers, Explorers and Humanitarians of the Amazon
In 1945, three young brothers joined and eventually led Brazil's first government-sponsored expedition into its Amazonian rainforests. After more expeditions into unknown terrain, they became South America's most famous explorers, spending the rest of their lives with the resilient tribal communitie...
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Ann Farnsworth-Alvear
The Colombia Reader: History, Culture, Politics (The Latin America Readers)
Containing over one hundred selections—most of them published in English for the first time— The Colombia Reader presents a rich and multilayered account of this complex nation from the colonial era to the present. The collection includes journalistic reports, songs, artwork, poetry, oral histo...
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Yaguarê Yamã e Aldamir Sateré
Dicionário da Língua Sateré: (SATERE PUSU AG̃KUKAG̃) (Portuguese Edition)
Aqui o primeiro dicionário da língua Sateré organizado pelos próprios indígenas Nele se busca toda essência de um povo, sua ancestralidade e cosmovisão. Um brinde à sociedade de uma maneira geral, sedenta da literatura indígena voltada também para as línguas nativas. Entre elas, o Sateré...
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Neil L. Whitehead
Virtual War and Magical Death: Technologies and Imaginaries for Terror and Killing (The Cultures and Practice of Violence)
Virtual War and Magical Death is a provocative examination of the relations between anthropology and contemporary global war. Several arguments unite the collected essays, which are based on ethnographic research in varied locations, including Guatemala, Uganda, and Tanzania, as well as Afghanistan...
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Antonio Sueyo Irangua
Soy Sontone: memorias de una vida en aislamiento (Spanish Edition)
Soy Sontone. Memorias de una vida en aislamiento, narra en primera persona el testimonio de Antonio Sueyo Irangua, quien hasta su juventud permaneció en situación de aislamiento en los bosques amazónicos de Madre de Dios junto a su pueblo, los arakbut. El testimonio de Sontone, escrito por su hij...
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Bruce Arthur
Kyalibę̃: A Language of the Amazon Rainforest (Bruce Arthur Conlangs)
Kyalibę̃ is a constructed language ("conlang") inspired by the languages of Amazonia. The language's fictional speakers, the Sulilibe, live along the banks of the Madeira River in Brazil. Their world is shaped by the distinction between dry and wet: the highlands versus the floodplain, the dry se...
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Gilles Eduar
Brasil: 100 Palavras (Em Portugues do Brasil)
Toda a exuberância do Brasil. O Brasil é tão grande que abriga as paisagens mais diferentes. Amazônia, Caatinga, Cerrado, Pantanal, Mata Atlântica e Pampa — esses são os seis biomas que dividem o país, onde vivem determinados seres e plantas que gostam do clima, do relevo e do solo desse pe...
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Luli Creativa
Ramirito y sus Aventuras por el Ecuador (Spanish Edition)
Acompaña a Ramirito en una mágica aventura por el Ecuador. Este libro para colorear está diseñado especialmente para niños y niñas de 4 a 9 años que desean aprender mientras se divierten. A través de paisajes, animales y elementos culturales, los pequeños exploradores descubrirán las 24 p...
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Nicole Maxwell
Witch Doctor's Apprentice: Hunting for Medicinal Plants in the Amazon (Library of the Mystic Arts)
When Nicole Maxwell first visited the Amazon more than forty years ago, she had no idea that she would make a life's work of the people, plants and lore to be found there. Decades before Americans became aware of the riches to be found in the knowledge of plant medicines which native shamans had pas...
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Daryl Smith
Jungle Jen: An Amazonian Romantic Adventure
Unlucky in love, pretty nurse Jen Bradley is a faithful and plucky newcomer to mission work in the sometimes-dangerous Amazonia region of Brazil. Grieving widow and former Special Forces solider John Shaw is a disgruntled missionary bush pilot preparing to leave the mission field and use his conside...
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Gerardo Sánchez
Cómo escribir un guión: Cine, Teatro, Radio (Spanish Edition)
Descripción de las técnicas a emplear en la creación de guiones Gerardo Sánchez PhD (Nac.: Cuba, 1950), Divulgador. Doctor en Filosofía. Seleccionado en el año 2009 miembro de la organización Bilmore, Who's Who, entre los profesionales más destacados en la comunidad del Estado de la Florida....
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Maron E. Greenleaf
Forest Lost: Producing Green Capitalism in the Brazilian Amazon
Forest Lost is an ethnography of forest carbon offsets and the wider effort to make the living rainforest valuable in the Brazilian Amazon. Unlike other forest commodities, forest carbon offsets do not involve resource extraction; instead, they require keeping carbon in place through forest protect...
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