Children of the Rainforest : : Shaping the Future in Amazonia / / Camilla Morelli.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Rutgers University Press Complete eBook-Package 2023
• VerfasserIn: Morelli, Camilla,
• MitwirkendeR: Dësi, Roldán Dunú Tumi,
• Place / Publishing House: New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2023]; ©2023
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Language: English
• Series: Rutgers Series in Childhood Studies
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (170 p.) :; 12 color and 21 b-w images

Children of the Rainforest explores 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.