Bibliography: Science, Nature and Indigenous Cultures
- D’Argenio, Maria Chiara. “Decolonial Encounters in Ciro Guerra’s El Abrazo de La Serpiente: Indigeneity, Coevalness and Intercultural Dialogue.” Postcolonial Studies 21, no. 2 (2018): 131–53.
- Epps, Brad. “The Unbearable Lightness of Bones: Memory, Emotion, and Pedagogy in Patricio Guzmán's Chile, La memoria obstinada and Nostalgia de la luz.” Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies 26: 4 (2017): 483-502.
- Mutis, Ana María. “El abrazo de la serpiente o la re-escritura del Amazonas dentro de una ética ecológica y poscolonial.” Hispanic Research Journal 19, no. 1 (January 2018): 29–40.
- Sillitoe, Paul. “Local Science vs. Global Science: An Overview.” In Local Science vs. Global Science: Approaches to Indigenous Knowledge in International Development, ed. Paul Sillitoe (New York: Berghahn Books, 2007)
- Vitullo, Julieta. “Nostalgia de la luz de Patricio Guzmán: el cine como máquina del tiempo.” Kamchatka 2 (December 2013).
- Whitfield, Joey. ‘Communicating beyond the Human: Posthumanism, Neo-Shamanism, and Ciro Guerra’s El abrazo de la serpiente’. In Latin American Culture and the Limits of the Human, edited by Lucy Bollington and Paul Merchant, 177–200. University Press of Florida, 2020.
There is little published on Calafate, zoológicos humanos but in connection with the film you may like to read these articles on a) human zoos in Europe and b) broader debates around the repatriation of human remains:
- Walter Putnam, “‘Please Don’t Feed the Natives’: Human Zoos, Colonial Desire, and Bodies on Display”, French and Francophone Literature and Film 39 (1 January 2012).
- Smith, Laurajane. “The Repatriation of Human Remains – Problem or Opportunity?” Antiquity 78, no. 300 (2004): 404–13.