The Suruwaha are a recently contacted Indigenous people living in the Purus River basin, in the Amazon. In this second episode, we speak with Miguel Aparício about the Suruwaha, a people which he has accompanied and worked alongside for nearly thirty years.
In this three-part conversation, Miguel looks back on his early years as an indigenist with OPAN in the 1990s and reflects on how he was gradually welcomed by the Suruwaha over the years until he became, in his own words, almost a relative.
Throughout the conversation, we get to know a people marked by diversity, the intensity of their relationships and their laughter, even in the face of isolation and the ongoing threat of violence and genocide.
Miguel is an anthropologist and also works as an indigenist. He holds a PhD from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, is a Professor at the Federal University of Western Pará and a researcher at the National Institute for Amazonian Research.
Keywords: Voluntary Isolation; Indigenous Genocide; Indigenous Policies; Changes Contact Policies
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Photos: Gleilson Miranda / Government of the State of the Acre
