Why is the Amazon Burning? Visions of the Amazon: Imaginaries & Realities-Ebooks and Rare Books (HUL 494/598)
Associate Curator for Latin American Studies and Associate Curator (interim) for Rare Books and Manuscripts
Ebooks, Documentaries, and Rare Books
This guide supplements the readings and coursework for the Humanities Lab 494/598. Please see the complimentary guide by Renee James for Arizona.
E-books and movies
Adams, Cristina. Amazon peasant societies in a changing environment political ecology, invisibility and modernity in the rainforest. New York: Springer 2009.
Asch, Timothy and Napolean Chagnon. The ax fight. (documentary movie), Watertown, MA Documentary Educational Resources 1975.
Bonotto, Daniel Marcos, Silveira and Ene Gloria da. The Amazon gold rush and environmental mercury contamination. New York: Nova Science Publishers, 2009.
Garfield, Seth. In search of the Amazon: Brazil, the United States, and the nature of a region. Durham: Duke University Press 2014.
Grimshaw, Anna and Silverstein, Sydney M. “The Ax Fight: A Critical Engagement with the Work of Tim Asch and John Marshall.” Visual Anthropology Review, November 2018, Vol.34(2), pp.113-123.
Martin, Pamela. Oil in the soil the politics of paying to preserve the Amazon. Lanham, MD.: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc. 2011.
Nugent, Stephen L. Scoping the Amazon image, icon, ethnography. Walnut Creek, CA: Left Coast Press, 200
Distinctive Collections (some online)
Humboldt, Alexander von; Bonpland, Aimé, 1773-1858.; Personal narrative of travels to the equinoctial regions of the New continent during the years 1799-1804., Williams, Helen Maria, 1762-1827, tr. London: 1814-29.
Marcoy, Paul.; Rich, Elihu. A journey across South America from the Pacific Ocean to the Atlantic Ocean. London: 1873-74 v.3, 1874
Mee, Margaret.; Pabst, G. F. J. (Guido F. J.). Flores do Amazonas = Flowers of the Amazon. Rio de Janeiro: 1980.
Nordenskiöld, Erland. 'archẹologie du bassin de l'Amazone. Key-Rasmussen, Marguerite, tr. Paris: 1930.
Reid, Mayne. The forest exiles, or, The perils of a Peruvian family amid the wilds of the Amazon. London: 1888.
Databases
Latin American Newspapers - World News Archive: Titles from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Cuba, Guatemala, Mexico, Peru, Venezuela, and elsewhere offer unprecedented coverage of the people, issues, and events that shaped this vital region between 1805 and 1922.
Hispanic American Periodicals Index (HAPI) 1970-
Provides citations to scholarly journals published across the world on Latin America & the Caribbean. Includes political, economic, social issues, and the arts and humanities.
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