Children of the Rainforest: Shaping the Future in Amazonia

"Children of the Rainforest is a much awaited and fine-grained analysis of Amazonian childhood! Morelli's ethnographic account is timely, highly informative, and moving." Olga Ulturgasheva, coeditor of Animism in Rainforest and Tundra: Personhood, Animals, Plants and Things in Contemporary

"While it is often argued that children are the leading change agents in Indigenous communities, Camilla Morelli provides one of the first and the most thorough documentation of this phenomenon."  David F. Lancy, author of The Anthropology of Childhood: Cherubs, Chattel, Changelings

"This is a highly innovative book that offers a remarkable perspective on the immense social change facing the Matses since the 1960s through the eyes and lives of children. It is as eminently readable as it is theoretically challenging and offers a truly exceptional ethnography that will appeal to a wide audience. This is one of the most insightful and inspiring books on Indigenous people that I have read in recent years."
  Andrew Canessa, author of Intimate Indigeneities: Race, Sex, and History in the Small Spaces of Andean Life