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A Journey with Eliane Fernandes Ferreira through Brazil

April 30, 2015

Eliane Fernandes was born in Pocos de Caldas, an idyllic spa town in a volcano crater in the south east of Brazil. But her ancestors came from the north of the country. Ethnologist Eliane Fernandes, the descendant of a rich rubber plant owner who made his fortune in the Amazon jungle, researches indigenous peoples in her native Brazil for the University of Bremen.

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Eliane Fernandes was born in Pocos de Caldas, an idyllic spa town in a volcano crater in the south east of Brazil. But her ancestors came from the north of the country. Ethnologist Eliane Fernandes, the descendant of a rich rubber plant owner who made his fortune in the Amazon jungle, researches indigenous peoples in her native Brazil for the University of Bremen. More than 10,000 kilometres separate the German city of Hamburg, where she now lives, and Apiwtxa, the home of the Ashaninka people in Acre.