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Banzeiro Okoto: The Amazon as the Centre of the World
Banzeiro Okoto: The Amazon as the Centre of the World
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Eliane Brum moved to Altamira, a city along the Xingu River, to confront the destruction of the Amazon caused by the construction of one of the largest dams in the world. She seeks to "reforest" herself while building relationships with forest peoples and reveals the direct links between structural inequities and the suffering of capitalism and climate breakdown. The title "Banzeiro Òkòtó" features words from two cultural and linguistic traditions, representing transformation and the centrality of the Amazon to all our lives.
Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 408 pages
Publication date: 09 March 2023
Publisher: The Indigo Press
Eliane Brum, a writer who relocated her life to the center of the Amazon rainforest, has written a book about the destruction of the Amazon. In her book, she describes her move from Sao Paulo to Altamira, a city along the Xingu River that has been devastated by the construction of one of the world's largest dams. Brum seeks to "reforest" herself while building relationships with forest peoples who carry the scars and resistance of the forest in their bodies. She weaves together the lived stories of the region and its history of violent corruption and destruction to call for radical change and the creation of a new kind of human being capable of facing the potential extinction of our species.
Brum reveals the direct links between structural inequities rooted in gender, race, class, and even species and the suffering that capitalism and climate breakdown wreak on those who are least responsible for them. The title "Banzeiro Òkòtó" features words from two cultural and linguistic traditions: banzeiro is what the Amazon people call the place where the river turns into a fearsome vortex, and okotó is the Yoruba word for a shell that spirals outward into infinity. Like the Xingu River, turning as it flows, this book is a fierce document of transformation arguing for the centrality of the Amazon to all our lives.
Weight: 440g
Dimension: 135 x 216 x 33 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781911648611
Edition number: State
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