Reading - Ancestor's Times

Histories of humans and more-than-humans

• Apurina people when referring to animals and plants call them "Other Humans"

UNESCO cultural heritage definition

• Usually restricted to buildings, structures etc
• A newer definition has started to recognize "immaterial cultural heritage" such as dances, language, laws
• However, heritage that is embedded within a natural environment is often not considered - there are differences between "natural heritage sites" and "cultural heritage sites" without showing how they can be together

Amazonian human-environment interactions

• Quadua bamboo that grows in the Amazon is seen as an ancestor, from his body emerged the other plants
• Amazonian forest was for a long time regarded as "virgin forest", in reality now we know that there have been lots of human impacts on amazonian forest
• The geometric earthworks represent paths between dimensions - they point to other beings
• Urbanity in Amazonia - Pirjo's article talks about a deep time perspective