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Photographing Brazil's Yanomami

Photographing Brazil's Yanomami

FromThe History Hour


Photographing Brazil's Yanomami

FromThe History Hour

ratings:
Length:
50 minutes
Released:
Oct 2, 2021
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

In 1971 photographer Claudia Andujar began documenting the lives of a remote indigenous tribe in the Brazilian Amazon jungle. Her photographs helped the campaign for recognition of the Yanomami's rights over their own land. Chris Feliciano Arnold, writer and reporter specializing in the Amazon, describes the new threats facing the many indigenous communities in the region. Plus, remembering Petra Kelly - one of the influential founders of the German Green party, tracing the birth of the Taliban, and a survivor of of the Tanker Wars in the 1980s describes the moment his ship was attacked.

Photo:Antônio Korihana thëri, a young man under the effect of the hallucinogenic powder yãkoana, Catrimani, 1972-1976. © Claudia Andujar
Released:
Oct 2, 2021
Format:
Podcast episode

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