Cryptoforestry

Below is a story from ' Changing Pathways: Forest Degradation and the Batek of Pahang, Malaysia ' (2004) by Tuck-Po Lye. It is T...

"The intellectual creations of individual nations become common property. National one-sidedness and narrow-mindedness become more and...

Thirteen issues of Alcheringa, the journal for ethnopoetics, appeared between 1971 and 1980. They are all online . But that is not enough...

My copy of "Technicians of the Sacred", the big book of ethnopoetics compiled by Jerome Rothenberg, is the revised and  expande...

One of the strangest oversights in " Technicians of the Sacred " (Jerome Rothenberg's big book of EthnoPoetics, first publi...

The Huaorani are everybody's favourite Fight the Google-Jugend Indians. Initially they were legendary for their violence love of fr...

Fight the Google Jugend is my Guide to Kulchur, my ABC of Reading, my attempt to create a vision of the future as one where progress equal...

  A story can make space into place: despite the fact that Colonel Fawcett went missing and probably died a quite horribly death in 1927, h...

Final phase of initiation. A chanted dialogue between shaman and novice; the shaman is guiding the hekura into the chest of the novice, t...

Song 1 I am the first one That part of me which is blue Tells of blue snakes It is speaking of certain truths & of my dick I spea...

1. After noting the abundance of Eskimo songs and tales, Franz Boas goes on to give this image of Eskimo song making: The eskimo sits ...

Drawn by a Jivaro shaman in trance  The main part of this post is a Jivaro shamanic anent or sung incantation recorded by Philippe Desco...

The anthropologist as a young man. 'Systematic derangement of the senses' is how Rimbaud's described his method to get hims...

John Updike reviews the Watunna song cycles, I have this on my shelves but never managed to read it (because of its, to me, unreadability) b...

Helena Valero was kidnapped by Yanomami at the age of twelve. She lived with them in the Venezuelan Amazon for 24 years before returning t...

Alan Tormaid Campbell 's 'Getting to Know Waiwai' (1995), about fieldwork with the numerically small Wayapi , is a wonderful a...