Come and explore the forest...
Exploring moments of connection, surprise, and sometimes even strangeness in our encounters with Indigenous peoples...
What do we know about the ways of being and thinking of Brazil’s Indigenous peoples? What can we learn from their relationships with the natural and spiritual worlds, with plants and stars, and with the ways they inhabit and care for their territories?
The Forest Thinking Project offers a window into this vast and fascinating Indigenous universe through conversations with specialists working across a wide range of fields. Through accessible and engaging interviews, we share insights that extend beyond academic and literary circles, inviting experts to unpack their research and reflect on the moments of connection, surprise, and unfamiliarity that emerge in encounters with Indigenous peoples and their worlds.
In other words, Forest Thinking grew out of a desire to share perspectives and forms of knowledge that are confined to specialist books, academic articles, or Indigenous testimonies that remain inaccessible to many. We believe that making these ideas available through new forms of storytelling and communication can help foster a deeper understanding of Indigenous peoples and contribute to positive social change in how they are perceived and treated.
“Laughter is present in every aspect of Krahô life. It has the power to create openness, foster encounters and connections, and enable a sharing of bodies.”
“I think that the archaeology of the Amazon is so different because human action here creates a kind of confusion between knowledge and nature. We struggle to separate what is natural from what is cultural.”
“Today, there are no uncontacted peoples who remain isolated because they are unaware of the outside world. Isolated peoples avoid contact because they choose to. It is a deliberate rejection of engagement with wider society. These groups are often fragments of once larger people, survivors who have endured experiences of violence, displacement, and massacre.”
“For the Krahô, the pur pej, a field that is both beautiful and good, is, above all, a diverse one. And that diversity depends on these exchanges, on seeds circulating among different families."
“Indigenous peoples are collectors of difference, while we have become a machine for generating uniformity at every level of society.”
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