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In this article, I am making the argument that addressing issues of cultural and social representations of Peruvian Amazonia by the national community – both political civil society – with a narrow temporal synchronic and spatial materialistic perspective (three or four hundred years of history and the reduction of bio-physical diversity to a few commoditized "resources") lessens drastically our ability to fully understand and interact intelligently and ethically with this vast portion of Peru's national territory. I am proposing the qualitative shift to an emic way of thinking and analyzing Amazonia, that is to say adopting the indigenous way of knowing and co-existing with the forest as a living entity peopled by thinking and feeling entities with will, intentionality and teleological energy-synergy.

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Analyse der internen und externen Reproduktionsbedingungen der großen Ethnien in Lateinamerika unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der Probleme der Überfremdung und des ethnischen Widerstands. Vorstellung eines experimentellen Entwicklungsprogramms in Sierra Juarez, Mexiko, bei den Gruppen der Chinanteca, Mixe und Zatopeca

Independence in Mexico created only an appearance of choice in the setting up of the new nation-state; given the Hispano-American roots of the insurgents, the state could only be organized along the lines of a homogeneous linguistic & ethnic centralism. Ethnic conflicts between the indigenous population & the Hispanics, which abounded in the 1800s, demonstrated that any autonomy given the Indians carried a risk of fragmentation, which the authoritarian national state was unwilling to take. Viewed in that light, the proposal of the Mexican Communist Party in the 1930s that the ethnic problem be solved by a policy of small nationalities, patterned after the practice then current in the USSR, ignored the fact that potentially dangerous ethnicism poses an unacceptable threat to the homogenous state. A program for the cross-fertilization of the various ethnic traditions of Mexico is outlined. It both rejects the forced cultural leveling which has heretofore been the policy, & urges the spontaneous convergence of constituent cultures. S. Karganovic.

Nous allons exposer dans les pages qui suivent, d'une manière schématique, quelques considérations à propos de deux récits mythologiques des Campa de la forêt centrale du Pérou. On peut classer les versions que nous allons analyser dans la catégorie des récits cosmogoniques ; cependant nous croyons qu'il s'agit de fragments de deux mythes d'origines qui, bien que provenant d'une même aire culturelle — Campa —, concernent aussi d'autres zones géographicoculturelles éloignées. Il serait faux, en effet, de supposer qu'il existe une totale uniformité dans les expressions culturelles d'une société comme celle des Campa, dispersée dans une région de plus de cent mille km2.

"Combining personal and family recollections with incisive accounts of academic, political, and institutional experiences, The Art of Memory offers a remarkable account of the life of one of the foremost Latin American ethnographers and a leading expert in Indigenous cultures, peoples, and cosmologies. Varese narrates the story of his journey from Italy to Peru, his formative years as an anthropologist and the critical work he did with Amazonian communities in the 1970s, his transformation into an activist scholar, his move to Mexico and his long-standing commitment with the peoples of Oaxaca, and his life as an academic in the United States ... combines the personal, the political, and the transnational to produce a vivid account of a unique and fulfilling journey"--