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The Amazon from an International Law Perspective - Beatriz Garcia - Bog - Cambridge University Press - Plusbog.dk

The Amazon from an International Law Perspective - Beatriz Garcia - Bog - Cambridge University Press - Plusbog.dk

With a vast river network and rainforests extending over eight South American countries, the Amazon plays a vital role particularly in maintaining biodiversity and terrestrial carbon storage. Due to its ecological characteristics, the Amazon benefits not only those countries but also the international community at large. However, the Amazon forests are being rapidly cleared with a consequent loss of biodiversity and impact on global climate. This book examines whether international law has an impact on the preservation of the Amazon by inquiring into the forms of cooperation that exist among the Amazon countries, and between them and the international community, and to what extent international cooperation can help protect the Amazon. Given the role of this region in maintaining the balance of the global environment, the book examines whether the Amazon should be granted a special legal status and possible implications in terms of international cooperation.

DKK 662.00
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Amazon - Natalie Berg - Bog - Kogan Page Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Amazon - Natalie Berg - Bog - Kogan Page Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Amazon - one of the world''s most valuable companies - is worth more than Walmart, Netflix, Target, Nike and Costco combined. What are the secrets to its success? How can these insights be applied to other businesses in the e-commerce sector? The retail industry is facing unprecedented challenges. Across all sectors and markets, retailers are shifting their business models and customer engagement strategies to ensure they survive. Amazon offers unique insight into the company''s persistent dissatisfaction with the status quo and innovation and how it has fundamentally changed the ways in which we shop. This fully updated second edition explores Amazon''s response to the coronavirus pandemic, the convergence of physical and digital retail, e-commerce economics and sustainability, as well as future policy implications. Written by industry-leading retail analysts and with the first edition now translated into more than a dozen languages, Amazon is an invaluable resource for discovering the lessons that can be learned from the company''s unprecedented rise to dominance.

DKK 639.00
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Pro PowerShell for Amazon Web Services - Emmanuel Tsouris - Bog - APress - Plusbog.dk

Pro PowerShell for Amazon Web Services - Emmanuel Tsouris - Bog - APress - Plusbog.dk

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the leading public cloud platform. In this book you will learn to use Microsoft PowerShell to create, host, manage, and administer workloads using Amazon Web Services. You will learn how to create virtual machines, provision storage, configure networks, and more-all using your preferred Windows scripting language. CIOs everywhere are leading their organizations to the cloud, but there are few books available to help. This book focuses on moving Microsoft Windows workloads to the cloud using technologies familiar to enterprise Microsoft-based professionals. The completely revised and expanded Pro PowerShell for Amazon Web Services is written specifically for Windows professionals who already know PowerShell and want to learn to host Windows workloads on Amazon Web Services. The cloud offers information technology workers significant cost savings and agility unimaginable even just a few years ago. Tasks that traditionally took weeks of work, costing thousands of dollars, can be completed in minutes for a fraction of a penny. New chapters in this second edition cover: AWS Lambda, Amazon WorkSpaces, Amazon AppStream 2.0, AWS Directory Service, Amazon WorkDocs, and AWS System Manager. What You''ll Learn - Create and manage Windows servers on Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) - Configure and secure networks with Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) - Leverage autoscaling to adjust resources as load changes - Deploy and manage SQL Server using the Relational Database Service (RDS) - Manage virtual desktops using WorkSpaces and AppStream - Leverage AWS Systems Manager to manage Windows at scale Who This Book Is For Windows professionals who want to learn more about Amazon Web Services, with a focus on running Windows workloads and automated management at scale using PowerShell tools for AWS. The book assumes you have knowledge of Windows and PowerShell, but are new to AWS.

DKK 519.00
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Amazon - Lukasz (university Of New South Wales Swiatek - Bog - Taylor & Francis Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Amazon - Lukasz (university Of New South Wales Swiatek - Bog - Taylor & Francis Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Taking a political economy of media approach, this book examines Amazon as a significant actor in the global media landscape. Amazon is mainly conceived in the popular consciousness and media commentary as a corporate body, selling products and services to individual consumers and organisations, but Brevini and Swiatek show that Amazon has become a communication giant that trades in diversified media (its own and others), and exerts a significant influence on global communication, especially through its online services. Further, the authors provide evidence of Amazon''s multiple influences on politics, economics, and culture. With its comprehensive and critical overview, this book is ideal for students, scholars, and researchers of media and communication studies and political economy.

DKK 560.00
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Policing the Amazon - - Bog - Taylor & Francis Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Policing the Amazon - - Bog - Taylor & Francis Ltd - Plusbog.dk

This edited collection discusses the rule of law in the Amazon and the capabilities of the region’s sovereign states to police their territory considering security matters. Comprised of nine countries, including a European Union member, the Amazon region features states facing political instability, poverty, social inequalities, high levels of corruption, and lack of trust by their populations. This context is aggravated by the presence of criminal organizations operating there and shaping transnational bonds. Notably, the world’s foremost cocaine-producing countries—Colombia, Peru, and Bolivia—are located in the region, presenting related turmoil and instability. Moreover, as home to the largest rainforest on Earth and the widest biodiversity, the region is an object of concern due to environmental reasons. The protection of these natural resources as well as the traditional peoples living there is intertwined with issues of development, security, and policing. The book delves into questions on the international agenda, such as: how is it possible to sustain the rule of law in the Amazon? What are the states’ capabilities for controlling the territory and enforcing the law? How do these states deal with the growing urban violence in the region? What are the capabilities of public authorities for proposing laws and policies, and judicial systems to process, prevent, and suppress different crimes such as drug dealing, smuggling, human trafficking, terrorism, and environmental crimes? The book fills a gap in English-language scholarship exploring the context of the rule of law in the Amazon and the impact on policing activities. It is ideal for a wide range of audiences, including policing scholars, law enforcement and community leaders, and students focusing on criminal justice and the Amazon.

DKK 448.00
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Scoping the Amazon - Stephen Nugent - Bog - Left Coast Press Inc - Plusbog.dk

Scoping the Amazon - Stephen Nugent - Bog - Left Coast Press Inc - Plusbog.dk

The Amazon Indian is an icon that straddles the world between the professional anthropologist and the popular media. Presented alternately as the noble primitive, the savior of the environment, and as a savage, dissolute, cannibalistic half-human, it is an image well worth examining. Stephen Nugent does just that, critiquing the claims of authoritativeness inherent in visual images presented by anthropologists of Amazon life in the early 20th century and comparing them with the images found in popular books, movies, and posters. The book depicts the field of anthropology as its own form of culture industry and contrasts it to other similar industries, past and present. For visual anthropologists, ethnographers, Amazon specialists, and popular culture researchers, Nugent''s book will be enlightening, entertaining reading.

DKK 457.00
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Frontiers of Development in the Amazon - - Bog - Lexington Books - Plusbog.dk

Frontiers of Development in the Amazon - - Bog - Lexington Books - Plusbog.dk

Frontiers of Development in the Amazon: Riches, Risks, and Resistances contributes to ongoing debates on the processes of change in the Amazon, a region inherently tied to the expansion of internal and external socio-economic and environmental frontiers. This book offers interdisciplinary analyses from a range of scholars in Europe, Latin America, and the United States that question the methods of development and the range of socio-ecological impacts of those methods by examining the theoretical, methodological, and empirical dimensions of frontier-making along with evaluating and refining existing frameworks. Contributors focus on the complex politics of border formation shaped by institutional, economic, and political forces, placing them in relation to ethical, imaginary, and symbolic elements. In doing so, contributors explore the dynamic production of identities, values, and subjectivities, covering matters of migratory patterns, complex power struggles, and intensive—at times violent—clashes. Among other topics, this book assesses the recent encroachment of export-driven agribusiness into the Amazon Region in the context of recolonization, resource exploitation and multiple programs of modernization and national integration. Scholars of Latin American studies, international development, environmental studies, and applied social sciences will find this book particularly useful.

DKK 388.00
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The Rise and Fall of the Amazon Rubber Industry - Stephen L. Nugent - Bog - Taylor & Francis Ltd - Plusbog.dk

The Rise and Fall of the Amazon Rubber Industry - Stephen L. Nugent - Bog - Taylor & Francis Ltd - Plusbog.dk

In this engaging book, Stephen Nugent offers an in-depth historical anthropology of a widely recognised feature of the Amazon region, examining the dramatic rise and fall of the rubber industry. He considers rubber in the Amazon from the perspective of a long-term extractive industry that linked remote forest tappers to technical innovations central to the industrial transformation of Europe and North America, emphasizing the links between the social landscape of Amazonia and the global economy. Through a critical examination focused on the rubber industry, Nugent addresses myths that continue to influence perceptions of Amazonia. The book challenges widely held assumptions about the hyper-naturalism of the ‘lost world’ of the Amazon where ‘the challenge of the tropics’ is still to be faced and the ‘frontiers of development’ are still to be settled. It is relevant for students and scholars of anthropology, Latin American studies, history, political ecology, geography and development studies.

DKK 422.00
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Spirit of the Amazon - Sue Cunningham - Bog - Papadakis - Plusbog.dk

Spirit of the Amazon - Sue Cunningham - Bog - Papadakis - Plusbog.dk

Spirit of the Amazon is the work of photojournalist Sue Cunningham and writer Patrick Cunningham. It is a celebration of cultural difference and a call for better stewardship of the world. Sue''s stunning photographs demonstrate the spiritual and material value of the Xingu tribes to all mankind; they keep the forest alive and they protect the climate of South America and the rest of the world. Their spiritual connection to their environment and the wider Earth shows us an alternative way to connect to the natural richness of the planet, built on foundations completely different from those of global materialism. During their expedition by boat, the authors followed the course of the Xingu river, a tributary of the Amazon, travelling 2,500 km through the heart of Brazil. They visited forty-eight tribal villages in this remote part of the Amazon, accessible only by small plane or by negotiating the rapids of the Xingu. This is the story of the tribal communities they met; their daily lives, their connection to the land and to the rivers, the threats which pervade each day of their lives. It is also a validation of their importance to the rest of the world; why these small, remote and often secretive indigenous communities are so important to our own lives and to our shared planet. It is a celebration of their vibrant cultures, their rituals and their rites of passage, of cultures very different from each other, but with a shared spiritual basis which respects the trees, the rivers and the rain. And it is a call for the world to protect them, their lands and their forests and rivers from the destruction which our avaricious greed for natural resources drives ever closer and deeper into their realm.

DKK 387.00
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A Practical Guide to Generative AI Using Amazon Bedrock - Avik Bhattacharjee - Bog - Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG - Plusbog.dk

A Practical Guide to Generative AI Using Amazon Bedrock - Avik Bhattacharjee - Bog - Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG - Plusbog.dk

This comprehensive guide gives you the knowledge and skills you need to excel in Generative AI. From understanding the fundamentals to mastering techniques, this book offers a step-by-step approach to leverage Amazon Bedrock to build, deploy, and secure Generative AI applications. The book presents structured chapters and practical examples to delve into key concepts such as prompt engineering, retrieval-augmented generation, and model evaluation. You will gain profound insights into the Amazon Bedrock platform. The book covers setup, life cycle management, and integration with Amazon SageMaker. The book emphasizes real-world applications, and provides use cases and best practices across industries on topics such as text summarization, image generation, and conversational AI bots. The book tackles vital topics including data privacy, security, responsible AI practices, and guidance on navigating governance and monitoring challenges while ensuring adherence to ethical standards and regulations. The book provides the tools and knowledge needed to excel in the rapidly evolving field of Generative AI. Whether you''re a data scientist, AI engineer, or business professional, this book will empower you to harness the full potential of Generative AI and drive innovation in your organization. What You Will Learn - Understand the fundamentals of Generative AI and Amazon Bedrock - Build Responsible Generative AI applications leveraging Amazon Bedrock - Know techniques and best practices - See real-worl applications - Integrate and manage platforms - Handle securty and governance issues - Evaluate and optimze models - Gain future-ready insights - Understand the project life cycle when building Generative AI Applications \ Who This Book Is For Data scientistys, AI/ML engineers and architects, software developers plus AI enthusiasts and studenta and educators, and leaders who want to evangelize within organizatios

DKK 541.00
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Amazon Web Services in Action: An in-depth guide to AWS - Andreas Wittig - Bog - Manning Publications - Plusbog.dk

Amazon Web Services in Action: An in-depth guide to AWS - Andreas Wittig - Bog - Manning Publications - Plusbog.dk

Master essential best practices for deploying and managing applications on Amazon Web Services. The ideal guide for mid-level developers, DevOps or platform engineers, architects, and system administrators. Amazon Web Services in Action: An in-depth guide to AWS is a comprehensive, practical introduction to deploying and managing applications on the AWS cloud platform. This revised bestseller is packed with techniques for building highly available and scalable architectures and automating deployment with Infrastructure as Code . This book will show you how to: - - Leverage globally distributed data centres to launch virtual machines with EC2 - - Store and archive large volumes of data with EBS, S3, and EFS - - Persist and query data with highly available and scalable database systems with RDS and DynamoDB - - Enhance performance with caching data in-memory with ElastiCache and MemoryDB - - Use Infrastructure as Code to automate your cloud infrastructure - - Secure workloads running in the cloud with VPC and IAM - - Build fault-tolerant web applications with ALB and SQS - - Automate common sysadmin tasks with Lambda, CLI, and SDK - - Build cloud-native applications based on containers with AppRunner, ECS, Fargate - About the technology Thousands of developers have chosen Amazon Web Services in Action: An in-depth guide to AWS to help them succeed with the AWS cloud. Readers love this all-practical handbook for its complete introduction to computing, storage, and networking, along with best practices for all core AWS services. Amazon Web Services, the leading cloud computing platform, offers customers APIs for on-demand access to computing services. Rich in examples and best practices of how to use AWS, this Manning bestseller is now released in its third, revised, and improved edition.

DKK 432.00
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Remaking Indigeneity in the Amazon - Esteban Rozo - Bog - Taylor & Francis Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Remaking Indigeneity in the Amazon - Esteban Rozo - Bog - Taylor & Francis Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Drawing on archival and ethnographic work, this book analyzes how indigeneity, Christianity and state-making became intertwined in the Colombian Amazon throughout the 20th century. At the end of the 19th century, the state gave Catholic missionaries tutelage over Indigenous groups and their territories, but, in the case of the Colombian Amazon, this tutelage was challenged by evangelical missionaries that arrived in the region in the 1940s with different ideas of civilization and social change. Indigenous conversion to evangelical Christianity caused frictions with other actors, while Indigenous groups perceived conversion as way of leverage with settlers. This book shows how evangelical Christianity shaped new forms of indigeneity that did not coincide entirely with the ideas of civilization or development that Catholic missionaries and the state promoted in the region. Since the 1960s, the state adapted development policies and programs to Indigenous realities and practices, while Indigenous societies appropriated evangelical Christianity in order to navigate the changes brought on by colonization, modernity and state-formation. This study demonstrates that not all projects of civilization were the same in Amazonia, nor was missionization of Indigenous groups always subordinate to the state or resource extraction.

DKK 429.00
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Amazon Web Services in Action - Michael Wittig - Bog - Manning Publications - Plusbog.dk

Amazon Web Services in Action - Michael Wittig - Bog - Manning Publications - Plusbog.dk

DESCRIPTION Distributed systems are unpredictable, and it can be an enormous challenge to manage around potentially-crippling obstacles like hardware failures, unanticipated changes in load, and network issues. Amazon Web Services (AWS) is a platform for hosting distributed applications in a secure, flexible cloud environment. AWS provides a suite of services designed to keep the focus on what an application does instead of the infrastructure required to run it. Whether serving up blog pages, analyzing fast data in real-time, building software as a service, or implementing a massive e-commerce site, AWS provides both a stable platform and services that will scale with every application. Amazon Web Services in Action introduces readers to computing, storing, and networking in the AWS cloud. It starts with a broad overview of AWS, and shows how to spin up servers manually and from the command line. Then, it explores infrastructure automation with the AWS CloudFormation service, where readers can describe a blueprint of their infrastructure as code. Readers will learn how to isolate systems using private networks to increase security, how to use the most valuable AWS managed services available on AWS, and about the benefits of stateless servers. In the end, they’ll look to the AWS model for high availability, scaling, decoupling with queues and load balancers, and fault tolerance. KEY SELLING POINTS Explains the key concepts of AWS Gives an overview of the most important services Allows readers to take full advantage of the AWS platform AUDIENCE Written for developers and DevOps engineers who are moving traditionally-deployed distributed applications to the AWS platform. No experience with AWS is required. ABOUT THE TECHNOLOGY Amazon Web Services is a platform of services in the Cloud to provide everything needed to run applications—from hosting a private blog, to running one of the biggest websites on earth, analyzing data for cancer research, or providing business applications.

DKK 406.00
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Smallholders, Forest Management and Rural Development in the Amazon - Benno (freiburg University Pokorny - Bog - Taylor & Francis Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Smallholders, Forest Management and Rural Development in the Amazon - Benno (freiburg University Pokorny - Bog - Taylor & Francis Ltd - Plusbog.dk

The ongoing debate concerning the Amazon''s crucial role in global climate and biodiversity is entirely dependent upon sustainable development in the region. Recognizing that forests are an integral part of the social fabric in the region, initiatives such as community forestry, small-scale tree plantations and agroforestry, as well as payments for environmental services have aimed at conserving the natural forest landscape. At the same time these attempt to protect and enhance the well-being of poor local smallholders including indigenous groups, traditional communities and small farmers. Against this background, this book analyses numerous promising local tree and forest management initiatives taken by smallholders in the Bolivian, Brazilian, Ecuadorian and Peruvian Amazon to better understand the key success factors. The insights gained from more than 100 case studies analyzed by researchers from Latin-America and Europe in cooperation with local stakeholders reveal the need for critical reflection on the initiatives targeting poor Amazonian families. The book discusses an operational vision of rural development grounded on the effective use of smallholders’ capacities to contribute to a sustainable and equitable development of the region. It provides helpful information and ideas not only for scientists, but also for development organisations, decision makers and all who are interested in one of the major challenges facing the Amazon: to combine equitable development with the conservation of its unique ecosystems.

DKK 457.00
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Mysteries of the Jaguar Shamans of the Northwest Amazon - Robin M. Wright - Bog - University of Nebraska Press - Plusbog.dk

Mysteries of the Jaguar Shamans of the Northwest Amazon - Robin M. Wright - Bog - University of Nebraska Press - Plusbog.dk

Tells the life story of Mandu da Silva, the last living jaguar shaman among the Baniwa people in the northwest Amazon. In this original and engaging work, Robin M. Wright, who has known and worked with da Silva for more than thirty years, weaves the story of da Silva's life together with the Baniwas' society, history, mythology, cosmology, and jaguar shaman traditions.

DKK 430.00
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Development Banks and Sustainability in the Andean Amazon - - Bog - Taylor & Francis Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Development Banks and Sustainability in the Andean Amazon - - Bog - Taylor & Francis Ltd - Plusbog.dk

This book explores what development banks, governments, and communities have learned in the last decade of careful negotiation between social and environmental protections in the Andean Amazon, and the pressures of a surging infrastructure and development boom. While mega-dams, highways, and ports are filling up the pipelines of planners, the national governments of Andean and Amazon-basin countries and major development banks have enacted ambitious social and environmental protections. The book traces the development of social and environmental protections after years of struggle by affected communities, going beyond official policies to discover how these reforms work in practice, and ultimately whether they are enough to stem the risks of infrastructure mega-projects. As Chinese public banks play an increasingly important role in the region, the book also demonstrates that there is a risk of governments undercutting their own standards. By contrast, this book shows that making infrastructure work for everyone involved requires mutually reinforcing networks of support and accountability among communities, governments, and development banks. This book, led by an expert multi-disciplinary, international team, will be of considerable interest to researchers in the fields of development and development economics, geography, anthropology, and ecology, as well as practitioners in development banks and in government regulatory and foreign aid agencies.

DKK 440.00
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Generative AI with SAP and Amazon Bedrock - Miguel Figueiredo - Bog - Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG - Plusbog.dk

Generative AI with SAP and Amazon Bedrock - Miguel Figueiredo - Bog - Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG - Plusbog.dk

Explore Generative AI and understand its key concepts, architecture, and tangible business use cases. This book will help you develop the skills needed to use SAP AI Core service features available in the SAP Business Technology Platform. You’ll examine large language model (LLM) concepts and gain the practical knowledge to unleash the best use of Gen AI. As you progress, you’ll learn how to get started with your own LLM models and work with Generative AI use cases. Additionally, you’ll see how to take advantage Amazon Bedrock stack using AWS SDK for ABAP. To fully leverage your knowledge, Generative AI with SAP and Amazon Bedrock offers practical step-by-step instructions for how to establish a cloud SAP BTP account model and create your first GenAIartifacts. This work is an important prerequisite for those who want to take full advantage of generative AI with SAP. What You Will LearnMaster the concepts and terminology of artificial intelligence and GenAIUnderstand opportunities and impacts for different industries with GenAIBecome familiar with SAP AI Core, Amazon Bedrock, AWS SDK for ABAP and develop your firsts GenAI projectsAccelerate your development skillsGain more productivity and time implementing GenAI use casesWho this Book Is ForAnyone who wants to learn about Generative AI for Enterprise and SAP practitioners who want to take advantage of AI within the SAP ecosystem to support their systems and workflows.

DKK 391.00
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Climate Change and Biodiversity Governance in the Amazon - Eduardo (university Of Brasilia Viola - Bog - Taylor & Francis Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Climate Change and Biodiversity Governance in the Amazon - Eduardo (university Of Brasilia Viola - Bog - Taylor & Francis Ltd - Plusbog.dk

This book provides an analysis of the recent governance of the Amazon in Brazil, Peru, Bolivia and Colombia with a particular focus on deforestation processes, demonstrating that current policies and political and socioeconomic dynamics in the four countries are risking the forest’s resilience. The authors examine and compare Amazonian politics and policies under different administrations, concentrating on the main actors, policies and dynamics that have affected the region, as well as on the institutional and political environment in which deforestation processes were embedded in different periods. Essentially, the book makes an analytical contribution towards a better understanding of the political, economic and social challenges confronting conservation policy in the Amazonian countries. Climate Change and Biodiversity Governance in the Amazon: At the Edge of Ecological Collapse? is essential reading for students and researchers in the fields of environmental studies and sustainability, Latin American studies, political science and international relations, as well as for policymakers and practitioners working in conservation and development.

DKK 532.00
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Ayahuasca Shamanism in the Amazon and Beyond - - Bog - Oxford University Press Inc - Plusbog.dk

Ayahuasca Shamanism in the Amazon and Beyond - - Bog - Oxford University Press Inc - Plusbog.dk

Beatriz Caiuby Labate and Clancy Cavnar offer an in-depth exploration of how Amerindian epistemology and ontology concerning indigenous shamanic rituals of the Amazon have spread to Western societies, and of how indigenous, mestizo, and cosmopolitan cultures have engaged with and transformed these forest traditions. The volume focuses on the use of ayahuasca, a psychoactive drink essential in many indigenous shamanic rituals of the Amazon. Ayahuasca use has spread far beyond its Amazonian origin, spurring a variety of legal and cultural responses in the countries to which it has spread. The essays in this volume look at how these responses have influenced ritual design and performance in traditional and non-traditional contexts, how displaced indigenous people and rubber tappers are engaged in the creative reinvention of rituals, and how these rituals help build ethnic alliances and cultural and political strategies for their marginalized position. Some essays explore important classic and contemporary issues in anthropology, including the relationship between the expansion of ecotourism and ethnic tourism and recent indigenous cultural revival and the emergence of new ethnic identities. The volume also examines trends in the commodification of indigenous cultures in post-colonial contexts, the combination of shamanism with a network of health and spiritually related services, and identity hybridization in global societies. The rich ethnographies and extensive analysis of these essays will allow deeper understanding of the role of ritual in mediating the encounter between indigenous traditions and modern societies.

DKK 477.00
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