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The life and death of a minke whale in the Amazon, dispatches from the Brazilian rainforest, Fábio Zuker ; translated by Ezra E. Fitz

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The life and death of a minke whale in the Amazon

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Fábio Zuker ; translated by Ezra E. Fitz

dispatches from the Brazilian rainforest

"In these essays, Zuker shares intimate stories of life in the rainforest and its surrounding cities during an age of raging wildfires, mass migration, populist politics, and increasing deforestation. As a group of Venezuelan migrants wait at a bus station in Manaus, looking for a place more stable than home, an elder in Alter do Chão becomes the first Indigenous person in Brazil to die from COVID-19 after years of fighting for the rights and recognition of the Borari people. The subjects Zuker interviews are often torn between ties with their ancestral territories and the push for capitalist gain; The Life and Death of a Minke Whale in the Amazon captures the friction between their worlds and the resilience of movements for autonomy, self-definition, and respect for the land that nourishes us." -- from Amazon

Introduction: writing as the projection of worlds - A forest in flames -- Brazilians and Venezualans: a chronicle of hatred and compassion -- The life and death of a minke whale in the Amazon -- An afternoon with Venezualans at the Manaus busterminal overpass -- The self-demarcation of Tupinamba indigenous land in the lower Tapajos River basin -- Anama: six months underwaer, six months on dry land -- the poison fields -- "Nature herself is drying up" a quilombo on the Marajo Archipelago feels the impact of rice paddies amid turbulent times -- The Kumua of the upper Rio Negro and the decolonization of indigenous bodies -- Between the festival and the fight: the life of the first indigenous persin in Brazil to die from COVID-19 -- In the midest of a pandemic, Belo Monte is suffocating the Xingu -- Epilogue: writing nearby