Ana Maria Antunes Machado
Ana Maria Antunes Machado started working within the field of Indigenous school education in 2003 as a scientific initiation scholarship, with the Xakriabá. She graduated in educational science and has a master in social anthropology. Since 2007, Ana has worked with Yanomami Indigenous people in school education action, training Indigenous teachers, guidance in self-ethnographic research, linguistic and cultural documentation projects and advising on the production of books written in Yanomami languages. She fluently speaks the Yanomam language.
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FeaturesXAPIRI
Joseca is a Yanomami artist who lives in the Amazon rainforest, Brazil, between the states of Amazonas and Roraima. His drawings combine images of shamanic spirits with scenes from daily forest life.
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Features‘You don’t know the spirits of the forest’
Davi Kopenawa is a Yanomami shaman and spokesperson and founder of the Hutukara Yanomami Association. His words rippled throughout the world with the book The Falling Sky: Words of a Yanomami Shaman
— Issue #12
