Fierce ant from the Amazon Interview

Abstract

We were greeted by her, Vanda Witoto, at the gate of her house in Parque das Tribos in Manaus, Amazonas. With a broad smile, a straw hat, and a fiber necklace with a red pendant of seeds and feathers, she invited us inside. We passed through a yard with several plants and remnants of construction materials. Further up, on the right, there was a wooden deck with graffiti in the background and a greenish hammock that stretched across the entire length of the area. We were invited to sit at a table with chairs and try the freshly prepared açaí amidst the palm leaves. Vanda sat in the hammock and started to tell us about that place, about the structural reforms they had managed to make, about the house next to her parents’.