Glenn H. Shepard Jr.

Glenn H. Shepard Jr. is an ethnology curator at the Goeldi Museum in Belém do Pará, Brazil. He is working on a book about shamanism, ecology, and sensory experience, with the title Sorcery and the Senses. He blogs at Notes from the Ethnoground.  (October 2014)

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Crisis in the Amazon

We are deeply concerned about the grave threats to indigenous peoples’ territory, heritage, and well-being

November 7, 2019 issue

Specters of a Civilization

Martin Gusinde’s haunting photographs of the Selk’nam, Yamana and Kawésqar peoples—now collected and published in The Lost Tribes of Tierra del Fuego—present a way of life that has since ceased to exist.

August 9, 2015