| Título : |
VANISHING AMAZON |
| Tipo de documento: |
texto impreso |
| Autores: |
RICCIARDI, MIRELLA |
| Editorial: |
NEW YORK : ABRAMS |
| Fecha de publicación: |
1991 |
| Número de páginas: |
240p. |
| Idioma : |
Inglés (eng) |
| Palabras clave: |
HISTORY;LATIN AMERICA;BRAZIL |
| Resumen: |
Startling in its beauty and haunting in its imagery, Mirella Ricciardi's Vanishing Amazon is an extraordinary visual record of the ancient and threatened Indian cultures of the Amazon rainforests. For many thousands of years, Indians have lived in the rainforests; some in areas so remote and inaccessible that they remain to this day uncontacted by the outside world; others on lands exploited by goldminers and rubber barons, where such contacts have led too often dispossession and death. In this century in Brazil alone one tribe has become extinct every year. Vanishing Amazon is not only a moving celebration of the Indian way of life but also a valuable record of these enduring, but endangered, cultures. It stands as an elegy to the past, a testament to the present, and a challange to the future. For, in the words of Ailton Krenak, President of the Forest People's Alliance, "We learned from the ancients that we are a tiny part of this immense universe,fellow travelers with all the animals, the plants and the waters. We are all a part of the whole, we cannot neglect or destroy our home." |
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