Recommended Reading
Indigenous peoples in isolation in the Peruvian Amazon : their struggle for survival and freedom by Call Number: F3429.1 .M33 H8413 2004- One century of scientific literature on Peruvian Amazonian ethnicities, Chapter 6 byFrom: Current Topics in Ethnobotany, 2008, ISBN: 978-81-308-0243-5 Editors: Ulysses Paulino de Albuquerque and Marcelo Alves Ramos
- CATALOGO ARTE KAKATAIBO. Comunidades Nativas Yamino y Mariscal Cáceres byOnline catalog about Kakataibo art, an indigenous group in Ucayali.
La Torre-Cuadros M.A. 2011. Catálogo Arte Kakataibo. Comunidades Nativas Yamino y MariscalCáceres. World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF). Lima. 52 pp. - Intercultural education and literacy [electronic resource] : an ethnographic study of indigenous knowledge and learning in the Peruvian Amazon byCall Number: Connect to electronic text. -- (Source: ebrary Academic Complete)Licensed for all KU students, faculty and staff connecting to the Internet.
Liberation Through Land Rights in the Peruvian Amazon by Call Number: HD1333.P42 U24 1998
The Arakmbut--mythology, spirituality, and history in an Amazonian Community by Call Number: F3430.1.M38 G75 1996 vol. 1ISBN: 1571818766
The last Shaman--change in an Amazonian community by Call Number: F3430.1.M38 G75 1996 vol. 2ISBN: 157181874X
Families of the forest : the Matsigenka Indians of the Peruvian Amazon by Call Number: F3430.1.M3 J64 2003ISBN: 0520232410- War of shadows : the struggle for utopia in the Peruvian Amazon byCall Number: F3430.1.C3 B76 1991ISBN: 0520074351
- For more works, also see: by**Urarina Society, Cosmology, and History in Peruvian Amazonia - Bartholomew Dean
**At the risk of being heard : identity, indigenous rights, and postcolonial states - edited by Bartholomew Dean and Jerome M. Levi
Indigenous Ecological Reserve
Native Community Sets a New Standard in Conservation
- Queros Wachiperi Native CommunityJuly 2, 2008 marked the establishment of the world’s first conservation concession managed by an indigenous group. The Haramba Queros Wachiperi Ecological Reserve protects 6,976 hectares (17,238 acres) of highly biodiverse forest located in the Amazon rainforest of southeastern Peru.
Indigenous Cultures - News
Members of the Mashco-Piro tribe photographed in 2011. Photograph: Reuters
- An Isolated Tribe Emerges from the Rain ForestIn Peru, an unsolved killing has brought the Mashco Piro into contact with the outside world.
By Jon Lee Anderson - Peru: alarm over appearance of isolated Mashco-Piro tribeAP in Lima, The Guardian, Tuesday, August 20, 2013.
Authorities perplexed as more than 100 members of clan that has almost no contact with outsiders threaten to cross river. - "Los incas se introdujeron en la selva baja amazónica"El explorador español Diego Cortijo, que ha retratado a pueblos indígenas aislados en el Amazonas, defiende la necesidad de hacerlos visibles.
LaVanguardia.com, 28/08/2013 - This Park in Peru Is Nature ‘in Its Full Glory’—With HuntersManú National Park is a biological wonder, protected—for now—by isolation and the indigenous people deep in its rain forest. (National Geographic, June 2016)
NGOs - preserving indigenous communities
- Survival InternationalThe Uncontacted Indians of Peru--
At risk of extinction from disease and land loss.
In the depths of the Amazon rainforest in Peru live tribes who have no contact with the outside world.
Oil workers and illegal loggers are invading their land and bringing disease. They won’t survive unless this stops. - Amazon Watch - PeruIn the Amazon region of Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru, Amazon Watch is working directly with indigenous communities to build local capacity and advance the long-term protection of their lands. (Search "indigenous peru")
- International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs (IWGIA)IWGIA is an international, non-governmental human rights organization that supports indigenous peoples' struggle for human rights, self-determination, right to territory, control of land and resources, cultural integrity, and the right to development.
- IWGIA - indigenous peoples in PeruLearn about major developments and events centering around indigenous communities in Peru.
- LAB - Latin America BureauLAB is an independent charitable organisation based in London providing news, analysis and information on Latin America, its people, politics and society. LAB exists to promote greater understanding and awareness of the region . . .
For over 40 years, LAB has disseminated information on Latin America aimed at stimulating and influencing debate on issues of human rights, development, social and economic justice, political rights, culture and environmental degradation.
Quechua women
(photo www.studyabroadinternational.com)
Native artisans - CACE videos
- Artisans of the Ampiyacu - Native handicrafts in the Peruvian AmazonYoutube video. CACE--Center for Amazon Community Ecology
- Mishquipanga (Renealmina alpina) - a dye plant from the Peruvian AmazonYoutube video. CACE--Center for Amazon Community Ecology
- Peruvian dye plant - MishquipangaPhoto album. CACE--Center for Amazon Community Ecology
- Handicrafts of the Peruvian AmazonThis is first of two videos that the Center for Amazon Community Ecology made to describe ways that artisans in this region make handicrafts from local plants.
- Amazon Ecology, Part 1 - Use and Insect Ecology of Copal Resin in the Peruvian AmazonPart 1 of this series probes the relationship between bark-boring weevils and the insects that provoke the formation of resin on copal trees in the Amazon region and the importance of this resin to bees and forest people.