Children of the Rainforest - Shaping the Future in Amazonia

Children of the Rainforest explores the lives of Matses children growing up in a time of radical change in Amazonia. Using visual and participatory methods, the book explores ethnographically how children’s imaginations, play, and shifting desires are powerful catalysts of social change, which shape the future of their society and of Amazonia at large.

List of contents

Foreword by Roldán Dunú Tumi Dësi
Introduction 
1 The Child in the Forest: A Glimpse into the Childhood
of the Past
2 River Horizons: Moving toward the Big Water
3 The Sound of Inequality: Children as Agents
of Economic Change
4 Consuelo’s Dolls: Shifting Desires and the Subversion
of Womanhood
5 Jean-Claude Van Damme in the Rainforest:
The Spoken Weapons of Masculinity
6 Yearning for Concrete: Children’s Imagination
as a Catalyst for Change
7 Urban Futures: When Dreams of Concrete
Come True
Conclusion
 
Afterword by Roldán Dunú Tumi Dësi
Acknowledgments
Notes
References
Index

About the author

CAMILLA MORELLI is a lecturer in social anthropology at the University of Bristol, UK. 

ROLDÁN DUNÚ TUMI DËSI is an Indigenous Amazonian anthropologist with a degree in anthropology from the Universidad Nacional de la Amazonía Peruana (UNAP) in Iquitos, Peru.

Product details

• Authors: Roldan Dunu Tumi Desi, Camilla Morelli, Camilla/ Ddsi Morelli
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.06.2023
• EAN: 9781978825215
• ISBN: 978-1-978825-21-5
• No. of pages: 182
• Series: Rutgers Series in Childhood Studies; Rutgers Childhood Studies
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Education > Social education, social work