{"product_id":"children-of-the-rainforest-shaping-the-future-in-amazonia-9781978825215","title":"Children of the Rainforest: Shaping the Future in","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChildren of the Rainforest \u003c\/i\u003eexplores the lives of children growing up in a time of radical change in Amazonia. The book draws on ethnographic fieldwork conducted with the Matses, a group of hunter-gatherer forest dwellers who have lived in voluntary isolation until fairly recently. Having worked with them for over a decade, returning every year to their villages in the rainforest, Camilla Morelli follows closely the life-trajectories of Matses children, watching them shift away from the forest-based lifestyles of their elders and move towards new horizons crisscrossed by concrete paving, lit by the glow of electric lights and television screens, and centered around urban practices and people. The book uses drawings and photographs taken by the children themselves to trace the children’s journeys—lived and imagined—from their own perspectives, proposing an ethnographic analysis that recognizes children’s imaginations, play, and shifting desires as powerful catalysts of social change.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This brief summary of \u003ci\u003eChildren of the Forest \u003c\/i\u003ebarely conveys the significance of this grand accomplishment. Seldom has childhood been studied so thoroughly nor yielded so many original findings. This is a must read for anthropologists who study childhood and scholars across the spectrum interested in the process of social change.\" -- David Lancy * Anthropology Book Forum *\u003cbr\u003e\"While it is often argued that children are the leading change agents in Indigenous communities, Camilla Morelli provides one of the first and the most thorough documentation of this phenomenon.\"  -- David F. Lancy * author of The Anthropology of Childhood: Cherubs, Chattel, Changelings *\u003cbr\u003e\"This is a highly innovative book that offers a remarkable perspective on the immense social change facing the Matses since the 1960s through the eyes and lives of children. It is as eminently readable as it is theoretically challenging and offers a truly exceptional ethnography that will appeal to a wide audience. This is one of the most insightful and inspiring books on Indigenous people that I have read in recent years.\"\u003cbr\u003e   -- Andrew Canessa * author of Intimate Indigeneities: Race, Sex, and History in the Small Spaces of Andean Life *\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eChildren of the Rainforest\u003c\/i\u003e is a much awaited and fine-grained analysis of Amazonian childhood! Morelli's ethnographic account is timely, highly informative, and moving.\" -- Olga Ulturgasheva * coeditor of Animism in Rainforest and Tundra: Personhood, Animals, Plants and Things in Contemporary *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eForeword by Roldán Dunú Tumi Dësi\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Introduction  \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e 1 The Child in the Forest: A Glimpse into the Childhood\u003cbr\u003e of the Past \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e 2 River Horizons: Moving toward the Big Water \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e 3 The Sound of Inequality: Children as Agents\u003cbr\u003e of Economic Change \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e 4 Consuelo’s Dolls: Shifting Desires and the Subversion\u003cbr\u003e of Womanhood \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e 5 Jean-Claude Van Damme in the Rainforest:\u003cbr\u003e The Spoken Weapons of Masculinity \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e 6 Yearning for Concrete: Children’s Imagination\u003cbr\u003e as a Catalyst for Change \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e 7 Urban Futures: When Dreams of Concrete\u003cbr\u003e Come True \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Conclusion\u003cbr\u003e   \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eAfterword by Roldán Dunú Tumi Dësi\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e References\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rutgers University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49415254999383,"sku":"9781978825215","price":25.19,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781978825215.jpg?v=1730526401","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/children-of-the-rainforest-shaping-the-future-in-amazonia-9781978825215","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}