In Our
Bones
Drawing from her book Umbigo do Mundo (Navel of the World), Indigenous anthropologist and researcher Francy Fontes Baniwa presents some of the myths of her people, passed on to her by her father Francisco Luiz Fontes Baniwa, as a way of understanding the contemporary world. Weaving a cosmological tale set in the landscapes of the north-west Amazon, on the border between Brazil and Colombia, she invites us to tune our sensitivity and imagination towards entities, animals, plants, places and events from an ancient time that continue to reverberate today.
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