http://worldcat.org/entity/work/id/146401986

Children of the Amazon

In the early 1990s, native Brazilian Denise Zmekhol was part of a film crew working in the Amazon basin. Her photographs documented the lives of the Surui and Negarote tribes, notably the children. 15 years later, she returned to the area and found many of the now-grown subjects. Their ancient, indigenous traditions have been almost extinguished: they've gone from stone tools and self-sufficiency to mechanical appliances and standard economic poverty in a generation's span. Despite the Indians joining the protests of Chico Mendes and the rubber tappers, who mined the now-vanishing forest's resources without actually destroying them, their way of life has been destroyed by contact with the modern world. The death of Indian cultures is of a piece with the ecological destruction wrought by decades of still-ongoing deforestation, with the resulting pollution, plant/animal extinctions, and ozone depletion.

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