Politics of the Forest
Debates
People from different fields invite us to look at the forest from new perspectives that reveal their complexity as political and cultural spaces. Participating in these conversations are Davi Kopenawa, leader of the Yanomami people, Raki Ap, leader of Indigenous West Papuan struggles, the anthropologist Eduardo Viveiros de Castro, the philosopher Déborah Danowski, the architect and curator Paulo Tavares, the lawyer and writer Philippe Sands, and the jurist and activist Teresa Vicente.
Eduardo Viveiros de Castro, Alexandre Surrallés, Karen Shiratori and Gemma Orobitg
Transversal Connections: Resonances of Perspectivism
In this session, we speak with Eduardo Viveiros de Castro who, from perspectivism, questions and critically reviews essential notions like nature, culture, humanity, person, body, relativism, universalism, and others, and we discuss the influence of his research in several disciplines.
Eduardo Viveiros de Castro and Déborah Danowski
The End as a Beginning: Worlds That Are to Come
Anthropologist Eduardo Viveiros de Castro and philosopher Déborah Danowski discuss contemporary and apocalyptic narratives of collapse and emphasise the richness of Indigenous cosmologies and cultures for thinking about the world that is to come.
Raki Ap
Guardians of the Forest
The tropical forests of West Papua, along with those of the Congo and the Amazon, are the lungs of the Earth. For centuries, indigenous communities have preserved the delicate balance of these ecosystems. A widely respected leader of Indigenous West Papuan struggles, Raki Ap emphasises the ...
Davi Kopenawa and Ana Maria Machado
The Impact of the Encounter and the Ethnographic Pact
Davi Kopenawa, leader of the Yanomami community, and anthropologist Ana Maria A. Machado speak about a meeting of worlds in this seminar co-organised by the CCCB and CINAF-UB, in the framework of Inter-Saberes. Dialogues with Indigenous Peoples.
Davi Kopenawa
Holding up the Sky: Words of Ancestral Wisdom
Davi Kopenawa, spiritual and political leader of the Yanomami people, and pioneer in the struggle for the rights of the Indigenous people of the Amazon, discusses with anthropologists Ana Maria Machado and Gemma Orobitg on the wisdom of his ancestral culture and the urgent need to preserve life on Earth.