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Connecting tradition and technology: The digitization of the ethnobotanical collection at the Rio de Janeiro Botanical Garden

PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, Volume 8, Issue 4, Page 1104-1115, July 2026.
The digitization of RBetno (JBRJ) represents a step forward for biodiversity conservation in Brazil. Aligned with the Kunming‐Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (Target 2, 2020–2030), this project documents the use of plants, including traditional knowledge and vernacular names, with a focus on the Atlantic Forest and Amazon.
Viviane S. Fonseca‐Kruel, Carlos E. A. Coimbra Jr., Luis Alexandre Estevão da Silva, Felipe Alves Oliveira, Maria Paula Vasconcelos Mesquita, Mariana Taniguchi, Rafaela Campostrini Forzza   +6 more
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Exiled From Their Own Lands: Indigenist Policies, Oil, and Colonial Plunder in 20th Century Venezuela

The Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology, Volume 31, Issue 2, June 2026.
ABSTRACT This article examines the historical displacement of Indigenous peoples in Venezuela, focusing on the links between indigenist policies and the exploitation of natural resources, particularly oil, throughout the 20th century. Using a combined historical and ethnographic approach, it demonstrates how the formation of the Venezuelan nation‐state
Gabriel Tardelli
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Coexistence in rivers of hunger: Human–otter relations and “Shamans of the Waters” in an Amazonian socioecological system

Frontiers in Conservation Science
The Baniwa Indigenous people of the upper Rio Negro refer to otters as “Shamans of the Water,” recognizing them as guardians of fish populations. During the mid-20th century, however, intensive hunting for the global fur trade drove otters to near local ...
Natalia Camps Pimenta, Natalia Camps Pimenta, Valêncio Walipere Macedo, Jansen Zuanon, Hani El Bizri, Hani El Bizri, Thais Q. Morcatty, Thais Q. Morcatty, Glenn H. Shepard, Adrian Paul Ashton Barnett   +9 more
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Phylogeny and historical biogeography of the Pachira sensu lato clade (Bombacoideae, Malvaceae) with a new infrageneric classification

TAXON, Volume 75, Issue 1, February 2026.
Abstract We explore phylogenetic relationships within the Pachira sensu lato clade (Bombacoideae, Malvaceae), test the monophyly of the genera Eriotheca and Pachira, and investigate their biogeographic history. The Pachira s.l. clade comprises ca. 72 species that traditionally have been placed in Eriotheca and Pachira. We sampled ca. 79% of its species
Vania Nobuko Yoshikawa, Júlia Sousa Siqueira, William S. Alverson, Rafaela Passos Camargo, Alexandre Wagner Silva Hilsdorf, Letícia Rafaela de Morais, Flávia Fonseca Pezzini, Marília Cristina Duarte   +7 more
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Ethnobotanical ground-truthing of Baniwa landscape knowledge in the White-Sand Campinarana Forests of the Upper Rio Negro, Brazil

, 2008
To assess the utility of indigenous habitat knowledge in studies of habitat diversity in Amazonia. Baniwa indigenous communities in Rio Içana, upper Rio Negro, Brazil.
Nelson, Bruce Walker, Bruce W. Nelson, Shepard, Glenn Harvey, Nelson, Bruce W., Baniwa, João Cláudio, João Cláudio Baniwa, Douglas W. Yu, Yu, Douglas W., Abraao, Marcia Barbosa, Shepard, Glenn H., Glenn H. Shepard Jr, Marcia Barbosa Abraão   +11 more
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Repasse do conhecimento Baníwa do Iniãli vs. Educação Ocidental

Revista Ñanduty, 2015
Neste texto, apresentamos e discutimos o processo histórico antes e pós-contato vivido pelos povos indígenas do Alto Rio Negro, especificamente o povo Baníwa.
Andérbio Márcio Martins, Edilson Baníwa   +1 more
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Fatores explicativos do suicídio pela visão indígena: uma revisão de literatura [PDF]

Estudos de Psicologia (Campinas)
Resumo Objetivo O suicídio indígena no Brasil é um fenômeno epidemiológico, complexo e multifatorial, e a busca pelos seus fatores de risco ainda não trouxe respostas conclusivas.
Geana Baniwa, Marcelo Calegare
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Amazonian fish migration as a social–cultural–ecological process

People and Nature, Volume 7, Issue 12, Page 3297-3312, December 2025.
Abstract In this study, we highlight the rich perspectives and explanations of fish migration held by Indigenous groups across the Amazon. We present the aspects of Indigenous cosmological stories, drawing from our exploratory review of cultural ethnographies and grey literature, as well as the authors' own experiences. We ask, how do Amazonian peoples
LuLu Victoria‐Lacy, Thiago B. A. Couto, Natalia C. Piland, Jesús Dámaso, Stephannie Fernandes, Simone Athayde, Elizabeth P. Anderson   +6 more
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Doença, cura e serviços de saúde. Representações, práticas e demandas Baníwa Sickness, Healing, and Health Services: social representations, practices, and demands among the Baníwa

Cadernos de Saúde Pública, 2001
A pesquisa foi realizada no Município de São Gabriel da Cachoeira, noroeste amazônico, junto ao povo indígena Baníwa, em parceria com as organizações indígenas, visando compreender a correlação entre a cosmologia do grupo, seu sistema de representações ...
Luiza Garnelo, Robin Wright
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Linguistic Diversification and Rates of Change: Insights From a Diverse Sample of Sociolinguistic Studies

Language and Linguistics Compass, Volume 19, Issue 6, November/December 2025.
ABSTRACT Language diversification and change can be studied using phylogenetic modelling of families over thousands of years, or by close observation of changes unfolding over a few decades at the community level. While the phylogenetic approach uses data from hundreds of languages to make cross‐linguistic generalisations, community‐level studies of ...
John Mansfield
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