The Yanomami are an indigenous people who live in the most remote part of the Amazon rainforest—their fortress and their world. They became widely known in the West with the 1968 publication of Yanomamö: The Fierce People, by the late anthropologist Napoleon Chagnon. Meanwhile, documenting them for over five decades, the Swiss-born photographer Claudia Andujar, who settled to Brazil in 1956, has been a fierce voice in defense of Yanomami autonomy and land rights. This exhibition explores the profound relationship between a woman and a people, focused through a lens. —Laura Jacobs
The Arts Intel Report
The Yanomami Struggle
Youth Wakatha u thëri, victim of measles, is treated by shamans and paramedics from the Catholic mission, Catrimani, Roraima, 1976.
When
Feb 3 – Apr 16, 2023
Where
Etc
Photo courtesy of the Shed
Nearby
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American Museum of Natural History