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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.
