- "Turning the lens:" My presentation on Kayapó video warriors and the future of the Amazon, sponsored by the School of Advanced Research in Santa Fé, recorded March 26, 2020.
- "A sea of mud, mercury and machinery": Jon Lee Anderson's podcast interview about the devastation of a Kayapo village by gold miners in Brazil, with cameo audio appearances by Glenn Shepard, Felipe Milanez and deceased Kayapo chief Mroô.
- "The Fish Trap": Prize-winning poem in the 2020 anthropological poetry competition by Sapiens.org featured for World Poetry Day, March 20, 2020.
- "An American anthropologist's escape to the Brazilian jungle": Interview in the Financial Times by Andres Schipani, June, 2019.
- "Kayapo people battle to protect their rainforest": Article in the Financial Times featuring my work among the Kayapo people of Brazil. April, 2019
- "An isolated tribe emerges from the rain forest": Article in the New Yorker featuring my work advocating for the protection of the Mashco-Piro people in Peru. Text by Jon Lee Anderson, August, 2016
- "The anthropologist and his old friend who turned into a jaguar": Article in National Geographic feature my work with the Matsigenka people of Manu Park, Peru. Text by Emma Marris, photos by Charles Hamilton James, June 2016
- "Nature in its full glory, with humans": Article in National Geographic featuring my work with the Matsigenka people of Manu Park, Peru. Text by Emma Marris, photos by Charles Hamilton James, June 2016
- Profile in the Daily Princetonian, Feb. 2015
- "The Spirit Hunters" narrated by James Earl Jones on Culture Unplugged: 50 min. Discovery Channel film on Matsigenka hunting and shamanism in Manu Park, Peru
- Article in The Economist reviewing our Nature paper (Yu & Shepard 1998) on indigenous beauty concepts
- The ant, the shaman and the scientist, first published by O Eco Amazonia
- Ethnographic photography exhibit (Oct. 2011) at Linda Matney Gallery in Virginia
- Mark & Olly denounced by Survival International
- International media coverage of the "Mark and Olly Follies" posting
- South Peru Panel evaluating impacts of Camisea gas development in Peru
- Shamans and lawyers, a podcast about Amazonian shamanism, binge drinking and traditional conflict resolution hosted by Michael McIlwrath of the International Center for Conflict Prevention and Resolution
- Ethnographic photography gallery hosted by Lee Matney, friend and photography mentor since second grade
- House of the Children, a project bringing clean water to native communities in Peru
- Ethnobotany field course (2007) in Manu Park with Connecticut College
- The Challenge of Life Hill first posted on Amherst College's The Common
- Goeldi Museum home page
- Native peoples of Manu Park hosted by PBS (some information outdated)
As an ethnobotanist and photographer who has worked for over thirty years in the Amazon, I often travel in what Wade Davis calls "the ethnosphere." I use this log for reflecting on journeys and explorations both outward and inward, recent and past.
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