Protecting The Water Spirits

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Audio File

Streaming Media

Publication Date

1-9-2026

Abstract

Indigenous people throughout the Amazon basin understand themselves to be deeply connected to the more-than-human world. So the pollution of waterways and loss of biodiversity is not just an environmental loss, it’s a loss of spiritual protection and livelihood. Jeremy Larochelle says that indigenous amazonian people honor poets as much as they honor the fishermen. And poets like Juan Carlos Galeans and Ana Varela Tafur are sounding the alarm about the urgent need to save the Amazon by honoring it.

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This radio interview was originally broadcast on: With Good Reason: Virginia Humanities.  It is freely available on the web.  

Prof. Larochelle's segment is part three.  It begins roughly around the 28 minute mark.  

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With Good Reason brings together higher education institutions and Virginia Humanities to make scholarly research accessible to all. Each week, we share exciting discoveries, rigorous debates, and new knowledge, with ever-curious host Sarah McConnell guiding the conversation.

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