No.TITLESOURCE
MEDIUM

01Music From Mato GrossoSmithsonian by Harry Tschopik, Jr.
Music

02The Crucial Crusade of an Amazon CowboyTCU Magazine by Kathryn Hopper
Article

03The Death of Chico MendesWashington Post by Miriam Parel
Article

04Murder in the RainforestVanity Fair by Alex Shoumatoff
Article

05KamaiuráIndigenous Peoples in Brazil
Web

06Hope RanchTEDx Alcatraz
Video

07The Texas Chainsaw StopperOutside Magazine by Stephanie Pearson
Article

08The Amazon’s Texas SaviourThe Economist
Article

09Concerns over deforestation may drive new approach to cattle 
ranching in the Amazon
Mongabay by Rhett Butler
Web

10Mato Grosso - The Last Virgin Landby Anthony Smith and Michael Joseph
Book


Music From Mato Grosso
Smithsonian
1999
Edward M. Weyer - Photographer (Cover)
Recording Era: 1950‘s

"The very name "Mato Grosso," or "Thick Forest" as it means in Portuguese, epitomizes the unknown and the unexplored. In the present century this obscure Brazilian wilderness, situated almost in the geographical center of the South American continent, gained worldwide interest with the disappearance of Colonel Fawcett and his party in 1926. Even today, though it may be reached by plane from Rio de Janeiro in less than a day, Mato Grosso is only just beginning to become known to the civilized world. The Upper Xingú River, which is the area of Mato Grosso with which this album is mainly concerned, was first explored by Karl von den Steinen as recently as 1884, and the Chavante Indians were only just peacefully contacted by white men in 1946..."

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