Amazônia (German Edition): Indigenous Creations and Futures

Discover the riches of the Amazonian worlds, whose biological wealth is but equal to their prodigious cultural diversity.

The Amazônia catalogue presents the contemporary nature of Amazonian worlds across time and space, revealing singular historical and aesthetic concepts. Despite its fame, this part of the world remains paradoxically little-known. Beyond the virgin forest fantasised by the West, this publication presents the Amazon as a complex ecosystem, through the eyes of the indigenous peoples living in the region.

Diverse and plural, they are both ancient and contemporary. Over the millennia, these peoples have shaped the forest they share with spirits, animals and explorers.

Rooted in tradition and threatened by Western modernity, the Amazon and its peoples have turned their attention to other possible futures.

With over 200 illustrations-contemporary art, ephemeral or immaterial art (languages, songs, body art), works from the collections of the Musée du Quai Branly, among others-this book invites readers to discover the Amazon as a place of knowledge, creation, and protest deeply rooted in the present.