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Over the last decade, several important books on the ethnobotany of Indigenous peoples in Brazil have become available. Among the newer releases, I would highlight for its comprehensiveness and richness of description a monographic volume about the Yanomami by anthropologist Bruce Albert and botanist William Milliken (2009; see Welch 2010 for a review). Also, an edited volume by ethnobiologist Moacir Haverroth (2013) encompasses ten case studies focusing on the relationship between Indigenous ethnobotanical knowledge and curing practices, based on research carried out by various authors among different communities in Brazil. A possible common denominator between these two books, as well as other contributions to the ethnobotany of Indigenous peoples in Brazil, is their predominantly, if not purely, academic approach. In most previous work, field investigation was done by academic researchers with the aid of Indigenous guides or plant specialists. The design and writing of such books more closely follows academic conventions, i.e., organization into chapters and subsections in accordance with standard ethnographic or botanical logic. In the case of Una Isĩ Kayawa, the entire project departs from a very different perspective, intermingling Over twenty Kaxinawá (or Huni Kuĩ, their preferred ethnic self-designation, meaning Real People) shamans from various villages dispersed along the Jordão River, near the Brazilian border with Peru, held a series of workshops over the course of two years that aimed to document and exchange traditional knowledge about plants, particularly medicinal, as well as their associated stories and myths. One result of this collective effort is Una Isĩ Kayawa, a nicely produced book that combines the expertise of Huni Kuĩ shamans with that of botanists from Rio de Janeiro Botanical Garden.

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Una Isĩ Kayawa: Livro de Cura do Povo Huni Kuĩ do Rio Jordão. Edited by Agostinho Manduca M. Ĩka Muru and Alexandre Quinet. 2014. Jardim Botânico do Rio de Janeiro and Dante Editores, Rio de Janeiro. 260 pp.