Merchandise Love, Part 2
In this second installment of Chapter 19, “Merchandise Love,” from Yanomami shaman Davi Kopenawa’s book, “The Falling Sky,” we learn about the ancient words the Yanomami applied to Western trade goods when they first encountered...Merchandise Love, Part 1
In his book, The Falling Sky, indigenous Amazonian leader Davi Kopenawa articulates an analysis of Western economics that I thought would interest many people who don’t have time to read the whole book.
The Falling Sky: Words of a Yanomami Shaman
Yanomami names are not used in the presence of the person named or his or her close relations.
Indigenous Wisdom: Aluna
This week is feeling like a turning point for me in terms how to respond, personally, to the world ecological crisis. Many people have noted that existing forms of activism and policy remedies are seeming incremental and insufficient, and that it would be easy to...
Moment of Hope
I am inspired and relieved that there is something we can do to help the indigenous peoples of Latin America.