Venezuela: Amazon Region
(see also Venezuela , Venezuela: Chávez Regime & Brazil: Amazon Region)
Basics
On the Web: Articles
On the Web: Specialized Sites
In the Library: Articles
Anon. "Venezuela: I'll buy these lands, Piaroa & all," IWGIA Newsletter 40 (12/84):64-74.
Arvelo-Jiménez, Nelly. "Dos conceptos de marginalidad: el maquiritare y el desarrollista," América Indígena 36,2 (4-6/76):303-12.
__________. "The politics of cultural survival in Venezuela: beyond indigenismo," in Schmink & Wood (eds.) Frontier Expansion in Amazonia (Gainesville, 1984), pp. 105-26.
__________. "Los pueblos indígenas y la tesis ambientalista sobre el manejo global de sus recursos," en Grünberg (coord.) Articulación de la diversidad (Quito, 1995).
Barandiaran, Daniel de y Walter Coppens. "Ensayo de formulación de una doctrina indigenista venezolana," América Indígena 31,1 (1971):107-16.
Biord Castillo, Horacio. "El contexto multilingüe del sistema de interdependencia regional del Orinoco," Antropológica 63-64 (1985):83-101.
Bond, Robert D. "Venezuela, Brazil & the Amazon Basin," Orbis 22,3 (fall 78):635-50.
Coppens, Walter. "Las relaciones comerciales de los Ye'kuana del Caura-Paragua," Antropológica 30 (1971):28-59.
__________. "Las misiones en Venezuela: perspectivas indigenistas," América Indígena 31,3 (1971):625-39.
__________. "La tenencia de la tierra indígena en Venezuela: aspectos legales y antropológicos," Antropológica 29 (1971).
Chagnon, Napoleon. "Life histories, blood revenge & warfare in a tribal population," Science 239 (1988):985-91.
__________. "Killed by kindness?" Times Literary Supplement (12/24/93):11. On New Tribes Mission & Yanomamo.
Chambers, Eve. "The Yanomamo & other causes: the ethics of concern," Anthropology & Humanity Quarterly 6,2-3 (6-9/81):25-27.
Davis, Shelton. "Mining projects endanger Amazon's Yanomamo tribe," Multinational Monitor (2/80).
Dumont, Jean-Paul. "Una misión católica entre los indios Panare de Venezuela," Anuario Indigenista 30 (1970):13-21.
González Tarbes, M. "Mesianismo, desarrollismo y etnocidio en Venezuela: el papel de las misiones," Proceedings of the International Congress of Americanists 43 (1979).
Harris, David. "Venezuela's empty rain forests," Geographical Magazine 41 (1968/69):216-20.
__________. "The ecology of swidden cultivation in the upper Orinoco rain forest, Venezuela," Geographical Review 61,4 (1971):475-95.
Lizot, Jacques. "Population, resources & warfare among the Yanomami," Man 12 (12/77):497-517.
Monod, Jean. "Una misión católica entre los indios panare de Venezuela," Anuario Indigenista 10,2 (1970):149-59.
Mosonyi, Esteban Emilio. "The situation of the Indians in Venezuela: perspecives & solutions," in The Situation of the Indian in South America (Geneva, 1972), pp. 43-55.
__________. "Las comunidades indígenas en el contexto sociopolítico nacional," América Indígena 34,1 (1974):181-88.
__________ y otros. "Situación de la mujer indígena en Venezuela: un estudio preliminar," América Indígena 35,3 (1975):631-42.
Pocaterra, Noeli. "Venezuela: education & indigenous women," IWGIA Newsletter 55/56 (10-12/88):105-15.
Thomas, David J. "The indigenous trade system of southeast Estado Bolivar, Venezuela," Antropológica 33 (1972):3-37.
Valdez, Alberto. "La dotación de tierras a comunidades indígenas en Venezuela, desde la colonia hasta nuestros días," Proceedings of the International Congress of Americanists 40,3 (Rome, 1972):371-76.
In the Library: Non-Fiction Books
Arvelo Jiménez, Nelly. The Dynamics of the Ye'cuana ("Maquiritare") Political System: Stability & Crisis (International Working Group on Indigenous Affairs Doc. 12; Copenhagen, 1973).
Chagnon, Napoleon A. Yanomamo: The Fierce People (NY: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1968).
Colchester, Marcus (ed.) The Health & Survival of the Venezuelan Yanomama (Copenhagen: IWGIA, 1985).
Coppens, Walter. The Anatomy of a Land Invasion Scheme in Ye'kuana Territory, Venezuela (International Working Group on Indigenous Affairs Doc. 9; Cophenhagen, 1972).
Di Turno, Sadio Garavini. Diamond River (trans. Peter Green; NY: Harcourt, Brace & World, 1963). Traveller's account of Brazil-Venezuela border region.
Ferguson, Brian. Yanomami Warfare: A Political History (Santa Fe, 1995).
Henley, Paul. The Panare: Tradition & Change on the Amazonia Frontier (New Haven: Yale, 1981).
Lizot, Jacques. The Yanomami in the Face of Ethnocide (IWGIA Document 22; Copenhagen, 1976).
__________. Tales of the Yanomami. Daily Life in the Venezuelan Forest (NY: Cambridge, 1985).
Marquina, Brigido. Las Nuevas Tribus (Caracas, 1981). Defense of the work of New Tribes Mission among Yanomamo & others.
Mosonyi, Emilio Esteban y otros. El caso Nuevas Tribus (Caracas, 1981). Critique of the work of New Tribes Mission among Yanomamo & others.
Schwerin, Karl H. Oil & Steel: Processes of Karinya Culture Change in Response to Industrial Development (Los Angeles: U. California, 1966).
Smole, William J. The Yanoama Indians: A Cultural Geography (Austin: U. Texas, 1975).
Thomas, David J. Order without Government: The Society of the Pemon Indians of Venezuela (Urbana: U. Illinois, 1982).
Vinci, Alfonso. Red Cloth & Green Forest (London, 1959).
In the Library: Fiction
Chesney Lawrence, Luis. Atisbos del amanecer: novela (Caracas: Editorial Tropykos, 1993).
Gallegos, Rómulo. Canaima (many editions in Spanish; English trans. Will Kirkland; Canaima; Pittsburgh: U. Pittsburgh, 1996).
In the Library: For Young Readers
L'Engle, Madeleine. Dragons in the Waters (NY: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1976).
Talbott, Hudson. Amazon Diary: Property of Alex Winters (NY: Putnam, 1996).
In the Library: Poetry
In the Library: Drama
In the Library: Photography
CD & Audio
Film & Video
"Listen Caracas" [1979], dir. Carlos Azpurua, 19m. From Cinema Guild. Yekuana chief, a leader in struggle for indigenous rights, speaks forcefully about his people's experiences with missionaries & other colonizers.
"La montaña de cristal" [1995], dir. Joaquín Cortés, 80m. Spanish immigrant, local girl & alienated missionary friar set out to find mythical source of diamonds of Guayana.
"The Legacy of Antonio Lorenzano" [2000], dir. Paul Henley, 46m. Warao shaman, canoe builder & musician.
"Rio Negro (Black River)" [1990], dir. Atahualpa Lichy, 116m.