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Ontological conflicts and shamanistic speculations in Davi Kopenawa's The falling sky
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Kopenawa, Davi and Bruce Albert as mentioned in this paper, 2013. The falling sky: Words of a Yanomami shaman. Translated by Nicholas Elliott and Alison Dundy.Abstract:
Comment on Kopenawa, Davi and Bruce Albert. 2013. The falling sky: Words of a Yanomami shaman . Translated by Nicholas Elliott and Alison Dundy. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.read more
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Mythe et Pensée chez les Grecs
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Embodying equivocations: Ecopolitical mimicries of climate science and shamanism:
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This Mess Is a “World”! Environmental Diplomats in the Mud of Anthropology
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Memories of Extractivism: Slow Violence, Terror, and Matter
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Popol vuh : the Mayan book of the dawn of life
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Mythe et Pensée chez les Grecs
TL;DR: The livre de M. Vernant as mentioned in this paper describes a peu plus de douze etudes, which ont en general paru anterieurement, dans des revues diverses, in particular, the plus ancienne remonte a 1952 alors que les dernieres sont toutes recentes.
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The Falling Sky: Words of a Yanomami Shaman
TL;DR: The Falling Sky as mentioned in this paper is a remarkable first-person account of the life story and cosmo-ecological thought of Davi Kopenawa, shaman and spokesman for the Yanomami of the Brazilian Amazon.