UPS graduate presented his book "Presas del veneno. Cosmopolítica y transformaciones Suruwaha" in Brazil

Quito, miércoles 6 julio 2016
"Presas del veneno. Cosmopolítica y transformaciones Suruwaha (Amazonía occidental)"

On June 30, UPS graduate Miguel Aparicio presented his book "Presas del veneno. Cosmopolítica y transformaciones Suruwaha" in the city of Manaos, Brazil. The book is the result of the research conducted by Miguel Aparicio as part of his postgraduate studies, it explains the changes that the Suruwaha from the Brazilian amazon have gone through in the last decades. 

In the beginning of the book the author points out that on the shore of the Jukihi river a stream flows in the mainlands of the valley of Purus, the jadawa humans, pursued by the spirit of poison, which is trying to capture them, undertake a journey of transformation into the waters of the sky. "The pages of this book have been written with the intensity of a joyful and tense experience of years among the Suruwaha, inhabitants of the western Amazon. The comments and annotations in field notebooks, recorded over time, have become a dense ethnographic material, from which essential topics for the Amerindian ethnology have been withdrawn", says Gilton Mendes from  Universida de Federal de Amazonas.

The event was attended by UPS professors Lorraine Campo, who is on her doctoral internship at the University of Sao Paulo, and was one of the speakers and Patricio Guerrero as a moderator. Later, they met with professors Sydney Antonio Da Silva and Gilton Mendes Dos Santos on the grounds of Graduate Program in Social Anthropology at UFAM to establish joint activities in the areas of publications, academic exchanges and collaborative seminars.