Maps, Magic, and Medicine
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- Website
- http://mapsmagicmedicine.com
- Description
- Maps, Magic, and Medicine explores the importance of indigenous knowledge to protect the environment. Each month we bring you stories about the spiritual, the unexplained, and the unbelievable. To create innovative strategies that address global climate change, poverty, and land rights, we must understand the interconnectedness of humans and the environment. These stories are the first way to reimagine our relationship to the natural world. Maps, Magic, and Medicine draws on the stories and experiences of the Amazon Conservation Team's past 20 years of work. Subscribe to Maps, Magic, and Medicine on iTunes to continue listening to the stories of making contact and making change in the Amazon Rainforest. You can also engage on our website mapsmagicmedicine.com
- Language
- 🇬🇧 English
- last modified
- 2021-06-25 01:51
- last episode published
- 2017-01-27 16:48
- publication frequency
- 17.17 days
- Contributors
- Dockercast
- Owner
- Maps, Magic, and Medicine
- Author
- Explicit
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- Number of Episodes
- 11
- Rss-Feeds
- Detail page
- Categories
- Science & Medicine
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Episodes
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| 2017-01-27 |
Episode 4: Knowledge for Protection: safeguarding isolated indigenous tribes Deep in the Amazon, there are groups that have made the decision to isolate themselves from the outside world. These isolated or uncontacted groups live under constant threat of incursion from mining, development, and illegal activity. On the final epi... |
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| 2016-12-13 | Julian Lennon, musician, photographer, and founder of the White Feather Foundation hosts this special episode about the Kogi indigenous people of the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, Colombia. Kogi community members discuss the importance of water, sacred... |
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| 2016-11-04 | Suriname is the only country in the Western hemisphere that does not recognize the land rights of indigenous groups. Yet, development projects, loggers, and miners have legal contracts allowing them to work on traditional lands. On this episode, we'll ... |
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| 2016-10-10 | Taita Luciano, un medico tradicional de la cultura Inga, habla sobre la importancia del yagĂ© para el medio ambiente y como su mal uso afecta a las comunidades indĂgenas. |
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| 2016-10-10 | Taita Luciano, a traditional healer from the Colombian Amazon, reflects on the importance of the traditional medicine yagé or ayahuasca for the environment and how the misuse of yagé affects indigenous communities. |
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| 2016-09-16 | When Mark Plotkin went down to Suriname, he wanted to study how indigenous peoples use plants. But when he saw his indigenous friend Wuta leave his home in search of a better life in the city, he realized that indigenous knowledge was disappearing fast... |
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| 2016-08-18 | Over 20 years ago, the conservation world was changing. An unexpected event showed Liliana Madrigal a different way forward that puts people first. On this episode, we talk to Liliana Madrigal, Adrian Forsyth, and Raquel Gomez about the challenges and ... |
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| 2016-08-17 | Maps, Magic, and Medicine explores the importance of indigenous cultural knowledge to protect the environment. But what do we mean by "Maps, Magic, and Medicine?" |
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| 2016-08-16 | Many indigenous groups in the Amazon struggle to encourage young people to adopt traditional culture and learn about their ancestor’s stories. As a result, a group can lose its entire archive of stories within a few generations. Yaucumá Waruá from the... |
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| 2016-08-11 | Indigenous groups are often given two choices: to stay in the rainforest or leave to enter "modernity." That was the case with Wuta in the Surinamese rainforest as Dr. Mark J. Plotkin recalls. To listen to more of the story subscribe to Maps, Magic, ... |
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