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The Mission

1986

Eighteenth-century Spanish Jesuits try to protect a remote South American tribe in danger of falling under the rule of pro-slavery Portugal.

125 min

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29:37

Jeremy Narby - My Life as a White Vampire: Gringos, Amazonians and the Antidote of Reciprocity

Jeremy Narby's talk at the 2019 World Ayahuasca Conference explores the practice of extracting knowledge from the Amazon, reflecting on how Western people tend to end up in vampiric relations with indigenous Amazonian people despite their best intentions.

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Jeremy Narby
2019
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Hey, Victoria’s Secret: Cultural Appropriation Isn’t Hot. It’s Wrong.

Cultural appropriation in fashion plays a huge role in the continued dismissal of indigenous cultures as primitive, dismisses indigenous people as playthings, and perpetuates the idea that we are relics of the past.

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Chelsey Luger
2017
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Cross-Cultural Dynamics