Amazonia in the AnthropoceneWidespread human alteration of the planet has led many scholars to claim that we have entered a new epoch in geological time: the Anthropocene, an age dominated by humanity. This ethnography is the first to directly engage the Anthropocene, tackling its problems and paradoxes from the vantage point of the worlds largest tropical rainforest. Drawing from extensive ethnographic research, Nicholas Kawa examines how pre Columbian Amerindians and