Enawenê-nawê men check basket and bark traps for fish before reinserting them into the weir’s upriver face

Man v fish in the Amazon rainforest

11 November 2016

̽»¨Ö±²¥Enawenê-nawê people of the Amazon rainforest make beautifully engineered fishing dams. Living alongside this indigenous community, Dr Chloe Nahum-Claudel observed how the act of trapping fish shapes their minds, bodies and relationships. ̽»¨Ö±²¥proximity of life and death brings human vulnerability sharply into focus.

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1904 painting "Attack on New Ulm" by Anton Gag

̽»¨Ö±²¥fall and rise of Native North America

26 September 2016

̽»¨Ö±²¥story of Native North America – from its vast contribution to world culture, to the often taboo social problems of drinking, gambling and violence – is the subject of a sweeping new history by a Cambridge academic and authority on the subject. 

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First atlas of Inuit Arctic trails launched

10 June 2014

New digital resource brings together centuries of cultural knowledge for the first time, showing that networks of trails over snow and sea ice, seemingly unconnected to the untrained eye, in fact span a continent – and that the Inuit have long-occupied one of the most resource-rich and contested areas on the planet.

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