A fascinating story about everyday, religious, political and cultural life of the guardians of the largest nature reserve in the world, the inhabitants of the Amazon, is in the book Kayapó, feral and Cashinahua. The Indians of the Amazon, historian Francisco Navarrete, with illustrations by Claudia Navarro, one of the latest titles in the catalog of the General Directorate of Publications (DGP) of Conaculta.
Co-published with Nostra Editions, the work is part of the Stories of Truth, which sets a comprehensive map of the earliest civilizations that more than 20,000 years ago collection were established both in the northern territories of the Americas, in what is now Greenland , Alaska, Canada, United States and Mexico, and Central and South America, in the current territories of Guatemala, Ecuador, Peru, Brazil, Chile and Argentina.
In this series of books, illustrated with careful adherence to the texts of renowned historians, the life of groups that together make up an attractive mosaic of a lost, however, define us to the world today is described.
Kayapó, feral and Cashinahua. The Indians of the Amazon condensed history of this immense forest of about six million square kilometers (whose existence spread from the arrival of the conquistadors) and the various Aboriginal groups from your remote and unknown origin they managed to live in harmony with the environment, and which have been preserved for the rest of humanity.
«When we think of the great tropical jungle surrounding the Amazon River and its tributaries in South America, we often have the idea that this is the last major region of the world where nature by man has not been modified. Similarly, the news media insist that this jungle ‘virgin’, is the victim of constant attacks and that this ‘tropical paradise’ is in danger of being destroyed, «he says in the introduction Federico Navarrete.
The Amazon rainforest is not a virgin, notes historian, «from 10,000 years ago this vast region has been modified and enriched by the Indians who live there, so that is a very human in their own way jungle as are the fields cultivated forests in Europe and North America. These indigenous peoples have also developed ways of living and thinking that allowed them to survive in these tropical forests without destroying them, and live with the thousands of species of plants and animals with whom we share them. »
A human forest; Men and animals; The longhouse, the people; Neighbors, friends and enemies; Amazon and foreign peoples and Amazonian herein, are the chapters in the publication, which also contains a brief chronology begins in year 10, 000 BC is divided with the first signs of human population in the Amazon region.
Kayapó, feral and Cashinahua. The Indians of the Amazon, is reported under exposure Amazon. Forest Peoples, on Saturday February 14 at 12:30 pm in the Multipurpose Room of the National Museum of Cultures, Coin No. 13, Old Town, with comments from Johannes Neurath, Federico Navarrete and Claudia Navarro. Free admission.
