Conversation with Eduardo Neves and Eliane Brum

Wild Memory

Eduardo Neves, an outstanding archaeologist whose research involves listening to the Amazon, speaks with the journalist and writer Eliane Brum about the memory of the rainforest.

The notion of the rainforest as a pristine, uninhabited space is prominent in western tales about it. Throughout his career, the archaeologist Eduardo Neves has worked to debunk the myth of the Amazon as a realm without humans, pointing out that it was intensely populated by Indigenous societies which shaped it to become the centre of biodiversity for which is known today, but which is also being ever more rapidly destroyed. In recovering the memory of the rainforest, archaeology shows that another world is possible because other worlds have already been possible.

In this session, Eduardo Neves speaks with the journalist and writer Eliane Brum about this other way of living in the world, which can be read in the memory of the rainforest.