Baptised by mercury: indigenous worlds in the Anthropocene
Garcia Briceno, L.
(2019).
Baptised by mercury: indigenous worlds in the Anthropocene.
LSE Research Festival 2019: New World (Dis)Orders. London School of Economics, London, United Kingdom, GBR.
After an intense evangelising campaign among the Ye’kwana in the Caura river in the Venezuelan Amazon, a Ye’kwana pastor takes a dip. The level of mercury in the bodies of the Ye’kwana is one of the highest in the world due to illegal gold mining in the Caura basin.
| Item Type | Audio/visual resource |
|---|---|
| Copyright holders | © 2019 The Author |
| Departments | LSE |
| Date Deposited | 03 May 2019 |
| URI | https://researchonline.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/100553 |
