UPS graduate presented his book "Presas del veneno

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Publication Date: 06/07/2016 11:16:00
UPS graduate presented his book "Presas del veneno. Cosmopolítica y transformaciones
Suruwaha" in Brazil
"Presas del veneno. Cosmopolítica y transformaciones Suruwaha (Amazonía occidental)"
On June 30, UPS graduate Miguel Aparicio presented his book "Presas del veneno.
Cosmopolítica y transformaciones Suruwaha" in the city of Manaos, Brazil. The book is the result
of the research conducted by Miguel Aparicio as part of his postgraduate studies, it explains the
changes that the Suruwaha from the Brazilian amazon have gone through in the last decades.
In the beginning of the book the author points out that on the shore of the Jukihi river a stream
flows in the mainlands of the valley of Purus, the jadawa humans, pursued by the spirit of poison,
which is trying to capture them, undertake a journey of transformation into the waters of the sky.
"The pages of this book have been written with the intensity of a joyful and tense experience of
years among the Suruwaha, inhabitants of the western Amazon. The comments and annotations
in field notebooks, recorded over time, have become a dense ethnographic material, from which
essential topics for the Amerindian ethnology have been withdrawn", says Gilton Mendes from
Universida de Federal de Amazonas.
The event was attended by UPS professors Lorraine Campo, who is on her doctoral internship at
the University of Sao Paulo, and was one of the speakers and Patricio Guerrero as a moderator.
Later, they met with professors Sydney Antonio Da Silva and Gilton Mendes Dos Santos on the
grounds of Graduate Program in Social Anthropology at UFAM to establish joint activities in the
areas of publications, academic exchanges and collaborative seminars.
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