Other Anthropocenes – The Apocalypse seen from Amazonia

How can we consider the Apocalypse from an indigenous perspective, for whom the end of the world is a cyclical event? Our geological era is profoundly affected by the impact of humanity and signed by ecological collapse and the end of the reality we know. Based on the work of Denilson Baniwa, artist from the interior of Amazonas, Patricia Vieira reflects on the Anthropocene from the cosmovisions of the peoples from the Amazon Basin.

Patrícia Vieira is a researcher at the Centre for Social Studies of the University of Coimbra, working about Iberian and Latin American Literature and Cinema, Utopia Studies and Environmental Humanities. Since 2020 she coordinates the project ECO – Animals and Plants in Cultural Productions about the Amazon.

Photography: Renato Cruz Santos