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


From Indigenous Peoples in BrazilPhoto: Miltom Guran, 1978
“The Kamaiurá are an important reference in the culture area of the Upper Xingu, in which peoples who speak different languages share very similar worldviews and ways of life. They are even connected by a system of specialized trade and intergroup rituals, which have different names for each ethnic group, but which have become known (both by people within and outside the Xinguan universe) precisely by the terms used in the Kamaiurá language, such as the Kwarup and the Jawari.”

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