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Healthcare Challenges for Isolated and Recently Contacted Indigenous Groups

12 November 2021, 5:00 pm–6:30 pm

Healthcare Challenges for Isolated and Recently Contacted Indigenous Groups

Talk and Film screening of ‘Zo’é’ by Dr Marcos Colón (Florida State University & Winthrop-King Institute), with commentary from Dr Maria Paula Prates (UCL).

This event is free.

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UCL Anthropology

In this talk and film screening Dr. Marcos Colón will address the relationships and dynamics of medical actions for recently contacted indigenous populations in the Amazon region of Brazil. He focuses on the threats to these communities’ ways of life and death, their concepts of diseases, how they treat the body and spirit and how they integrate nature into their relationships with health and diseases. Recent governmental actions in Brazil have directly affected the relationship between health and indigenous land, generating urgent questions regarding the future of indigenous communities.

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About the Speakers

Dr Marcos Colón

at Florida State University & Winthrop-King Institute

Dr Marcos Colón research focuses on Brazilian literary and cultural studies, with a particular emphasis on representations of the Amazon in twentieth- and twenty-first-century Brazilian literature and film. He is currently working on a book- project based on his experiences filming the Amazon. He has produced and directed two documentary films that represent diverse perspectives on humanity’s complex relations with the natural world: Beyond Fordlândia: An Environmental Account of Henry Ford’s Adventure in the Amazon, 2018 and Zo’é, based on his interaction with Dr Erik Jennings, and his work with the Zo’é tribe, an Amazonian indigenous community that has had little to no contact with the outside world (2018). He is particularly interested in examining a variety of perspectives on the post-rubber era in the Amazon. Colón’s scholarship uses the post-rubber era as a springboard for re-envisioning the region in a “relational” way, challenging hegemonic representations of the tropics in literature and culture. He is the editor and creator of Amazonia Latitude, a digital environmental magazine. He received his PhD in Spanish and Portuguese Cultural Studies from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2019. 

Dr Maria Paula Prates

at UCL Anthropology

Dr Maria Paula Prates is a Research Fellow in the Anthropology Department involved in the Embodied Inequalities of the Anthropocene Project, a collaboration between UCL, CIESAS in Mexico and UFRGS in Brazil.  She is also co-ordinator for the PARI-C (The Platform for Anthropology and Indigenous Responses to COVID-19)