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On the Wild Coast

Susanna Hecht on Peter Redfield, Space in the Tropics: from Convicts to Rockets in French Guiana. Defoe, Kafka and Verne unpacked from an anthropologist’s tool chest to frame new visions of France’s outpost in South America.

Love and Death in Brazil

“It is easy, indeed a cliché, to read Brazilian politics as a bad telenovela—a dramatic and vulgar soap opera about the new democracy in which the rich and powerful engage in intrigues and romances, corruptions and duplicities all leading to an uplifting conclusion by the last episode. The . . .” read more

Chico Mendes: Chronicle of a Death Foretold

“Where do good ideas come from? Do they fall from the sky? No. They come from social practice.” read more

Trees, Cows and Cocaine: An Interview with Susanna Hecht

“O forest! They cut out your verdant heart. The grasses, the Brazil nut trees, the wild beasts already scent the smell of prison. This we say: People yearn to be free, so Who will then be the masters of our history?” read more