Falling Sky. Davi Kopenawa’s story, and Bruce Albert. Well I think this is a wonderful book to close out course with. It’s very Indigenous, and following a life story. These are also great keepsakes for your book collection at home. Save these types of books for a warm afternoon, on the back porch, reading about the amazon well into the evening. This is the kind of book I want on my bookshelf for when I get to sit in the backyard around the fire, with a cup of tea, watching the sun go down. I love reading about the amazon, and even though we cannot live there, or always travel there often, this is why I want this book for my book collection because it transplants you into the amazon, and reading the stories of the Indigenous peoples there, definitely makes you feel closer to the amazon. I am very interested in learning more of the Yanomami shaman. Y’know, my father himself had met an anthropologist once. So Bruce Albert, is replicating the type of work most anthropologists pursue to do. They go out into the world, and interview the Indigenous. They do the work we never could see ourselves doing, but perhaps we should never say never. Actually it’s quite funny, Albert mentions in setting the scene that he was fresh out of university of Paris, “effervescent in social sciences debates.” My degree program is in Humanities and Social Sciences, and this reading and this book connects me to my studies. Kopenawa means “wasp spirits”. There seems to be a voice in this text, one who says “white people”, a lot, and is referring to white people in general, which I do understand because in their culture, their skin colour is dark, and when “white” people arrived in their territory, they immediately recognized their skin colour. So I understand. It’s interesting in their culture, they truly believe in spirits, and ghosts, and on page 41 Davi (if I’m correct) said the “evil beings of the forest” were constantly after him. That sounds like a scary childhood.