In conjunction with their exhibition, “Amazonia: The Rights of Nature”, the Museum of Anthropology presents:
Gavin Andrews, “Contemporary Challenges”
Thursday, April 27, 2017, 7-8pm
Museum of Anthropology
Andrews will guide a tour around the exhibition as he discusses the challenges confronted by traditional communities due to rapid changed in “development” and politics in South America’s largest frontier.
Gavin Andrews is a Canadian documentary filmmaker who lived in the Brazilian Amazon for fifteen year. He is the founger of Castanha Films, a film company dedicated to documenting the experiences of traditional ways of life in Amazonia, especially in its relationships to nature.