Center for Latin American Studies at Pitt----Lecture on 11/19/2014

Defense of the Living Land: A Comparison of Native Religious Discourse in Amazonia and North America

by

Tod Swanson (Associate Professor of Religious Studies and Senior Sustainability Scholar, Global Institute of Sustainability at Arizona State University)

Date: Wednesday, November 19, 2014

Time: 4:00pm

Location: 4130 Posvar Hall

For more information contact: Luz Amanda Hank at lavst12@pitt.edu

 

This presentation will first lay out similarities in Amazonian and North American Indian beliefs surrounding the “living forest.” It will then contrast how the language expressing these beliefs functions legally and politically within the historically Protestant North American and Catholic Andean contexts.

 

Tod Swanson, Associate Professor of Religious Studies and Senior Sustainability Scholar, Global Institute of Sustainability at Arizona State University specializes in Quichua language and indigenous approaches to nature in the Andean/Amazonian region.

 

Sponsored by the Center for Latin American Studies, the University of Pittsburgh. 

 

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