10/12/2023
Join us next Thursday, October 19, at 6 pm for the screening of The Way Back to the Maloca, a short documentary film on the Murui-Muina people of the Colombian Amazon, presented by Oscar Aponte (CUNY, History) in conversation with Sinclair Thomson (NYU).
King Juan Carlos Center Room 324
53 Washington Square South
In the heart of the Amazon rainforest, the Murui-Muina people of Leguízamo, Colombia, defend their culture and traditions after surviving the genocide perpetrated by rubber company Casa Arana. In a sound and visual journey through the rivers and jungles of Amazonia, The Way Back to the Maloca documents the life of the Murui-Muina people in night ceremonies, agricultural plots, malocas, classrooms, traditional dances, and daily conversations. Will the Murui-Muina people succeed in rescuing their ancestral knowledge and passing it down to the new generations?
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