For more than four decades, Kokoró Mekranotire has watched with dismay as outsiders have laid waste to ever-larger swaths of his Kayapó homeland. Loggers, gold miners, farmers, and land grabbers have ...
The giant Belo Monte hydroelectric dam complex built on the Xingu River in the northern Brazilian state of Pará is the fourth-largest dam in the world (after the Chinese Three Gorges Dam and Xiluodu ...
Prof. Emeritus Terence Turner, a UChicago anthropologist who did research in the Amazon basin and became a proponent for the rights of indigenous people, died Nov. 7 in Ithaca, N.Y. He was 79. In 1962 ...