Virtual Event (Radcliffe): Pedagogy of the Rainforest - An Indigenous Yanomami Perspective
Emil’ Keme, a.k.a. Emilio del Valle Escalante, is an Indigenous K’iche’ Maya scholar and activist and a professor in the Department of English at Emory University. He is a member of the Maya anti-colonial, binational collective Ix’balamquej Junajpu Wunaq’.
Wednesday, October 12, 2022 @ 9:00AM Pacific Time (12:00PM Eastern Time)
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Radcliffe Fellows' Presentation Series: Emil' Keme
"Ancestral principles held by Indigenous peoples represent the grounding force against environmental injustices and destruction in Abiayala (The Americas). By focusing on The Falling Sky (2013), a testimonial and biographical account by Indigenous Yanomami elder, Davi Kopenawa, I show the Yanomami’s relationship to the rainforest and the 'more than human' world (Abram 2013) in the Amazonian forests in the northeast region of present-day Brazil and Venezuela. Indigenous peoples and their worldview demonstrate to humanity a different way of living and caring for the Earth, one that understands the Earth and all their expressions as a living being and that humanity is not separate from nature."
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