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A team of UD faculty
and students is helping the Ese’Eja Nation of southwestern Peru to document their history and fleeting way of life as hunt- ing, gathering and fishing people in the forests of the Amazon basin.
aMAPPING CULTURE
ANCESTRAL LANDS OF THE ESE’EJA
the True People
Photos by Andy Bale, Jon Cox, Lindsay Yeager by Ann Manser | Additional reporting by Alison Burris
With a double major in environmental engineering and plant science, University of Delaware student Brian Griffiths was already an interdisciplinary kind of guy when he set off for the Amazon rain forest last spring.
In documenting the Ese‘Eja way of life, Brian Griffiths, a UD senior double-
majoring in environmental engineering and plant science, got to be something
of an anthropologist, cartographer, botanist, Spanish language interpreter, oral histo- rian and materiaculture specialist, not to mention a hunter-gatherer himself.
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