Podcasts by Maps, Magic, and Medicine
Maps, Magic, and Medicine explores the importance of indigenous knowledge to protect the environment. Each month we bring you stories about the spiritual, the unexplained, and the unbelievable.
To create innovative strategies that address global climate change, poverty, and land rights, we must understand the interconnectedness of humans and the environment. These stories are the first way to reimagine our relationship to the natural world.
Maps, Magic, and Medicine draws on the stories and experiences of the Amazon Conservation Team's past 20 years of work. Subscribe to Maps, Magic, and Medicine on iTunes to continue listening to the stories of making contact and making change in the Amazon Rainforest. You can also engage on our website mapsmagicmedicine.com
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Episode 4: Knowledge for Protection: safeguarding isolated indigenous tribes from 2017-01-27T16:48:01
Deep in the Amazon, there are groups that have made the decision to isolate themselves from the outside world. These isolated or uncontacted groups live under constant threat of incursion from mini...
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Special Episode with Julian Lennon: Listen Younger Brother from 2016-12-13T17:39:56
Julian Lennon, musician, photographer, and founder of the White Feather Foundation hosts this special episode about the Kogi indigenous people of the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, Colombia. Kogi co...
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Episode 3: Knowledge on the Map from 2016-11-04T13:24:50
Suriname is the only country in the Western hemisphere that does not recognize the land rights of indigenous groups. Yet, development projects, loggers, and miners have legal contracts allowing the...
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Un Elemento Ambiental (Episodio Especial) from 2016-10-10T21:10:43
Taita Luciano, un medico tradicional de la cultura Inga, habla sobre la importancia del yagé para el medio ambiente y como su mal uso afecta a las comunidades indígenas.
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An Element of the Environment (Special Episode) from 2016-10-10T21:07:03
Taita Luciano, a traditional healer from the Colombian Amazon, reflects on the importance of the traditional medicine yagé or ayahuasca for the environment and how the misuse of yagé affects indige...
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Episode 2: Explorers Turned Apprentices from 2016-09-16T17:34:57
When Mark Plotkin went down to Suriname, he wanted to study how indigenous peoples use plants. But when he saw his indigenous friend Wuta leave his home in search of a better life in the city, he r...
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Episode 1: People First from 2016-08-18T00:00
Over 20 years ago, the conservation world was changing. An unexpected event showed Liliana Madrigal a different way forward that puts people first. On this episode, we talk to Liliana Madrigal, Adr...
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Promo: What's Maps, Magic, and Medicine? from 2016-08-17T00:00
Maps, Magic, and Medicine explores the importance of indigenous cultural knowledge to protect the environment. But what do we mean by "Maps, Magic, and Medicine?"
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Promo: A Waurá's desire to preserve cultural memory from 2016-08-16T00:00
Many indigenous groups in the Amazon struggle to encourage young people to adopt traditional culture and learn about their ancestor’s stories. As a result, a group can lose its entire archive of st...
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Promo: Wuta moves to the city from 2016-08-11T00:00
Indigenous groups are often given two choices: to stay in the rainforest or leave to enter "modernity." That was the case with Wuta in the Surinamese rainforest as Dr. Mark J. Plotkin recalls.
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Promo: A message from the Kogi from 2016-08-09T00:00
Over twenty years ago, the Kogi people predicted what we now call global climate change. Today, their message is the same.
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