Publications & Media

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Scientific publications, media features, interviews by Acaté team members about our work, the Matsés indigenous people, and biocultural conservation in the Amazon rainforest!

INTERVIEWS / MEDIA

• Mongabay: Amazon Tribe Creates 500-page Traditional Medicine Encyclopedia
• The Guardian: Amazon Tribe Saves Plant Lore with ‘Healing Forests’ and Encyclopedia
• CNN Espanol: Conoce a los Matsés, el Pueblo Indígena que Usa Tecnología Moderna para Proteger la Amazonía
• CNN International: Call to Earth: How an Indigenous Community is Using Apps to Protect the Amazon
• CNN Espanol: Guardianes Ancestrales: un Especial de Llamado a la Tierra
• For an Amazon Tribe, Phone Cameras Shine a Light on their Wildlife
• Matses are Revitalizing a Living Health Care System
• Painstaking Mapping Initiative Helps Indigenous Peruvians Defend their Land
• Mapa Matsés: un Esfuerzo del Pueblo Indígena para Defender su Territorio
• Matsés Map their Ancestral Lands (video short)
• Los Matsés Mapean su Territorio Ancestral (video corto – Espanol)
• Saving Matsés Healing Knowledge (video short)
• How Rainforest Shamans Treat Disease
• Losing Nature’s Medicine Cabinet
• Permaculture: A Path Toward a More Sustainable Amazon?
• Helping the Amazon’s ‘Jaguar People’ Protect their Culture and Traditional Wisdom
• Shamans of the Amazon
• “The Lost Languages of Captured Wives in the Amazon.” ABC Radio Melbourne. 17 June 2006. Radio.
• Rainforest Medicine
• Deforestation Threatens Peru’s Food System, Environment
• Tribu Amazonica Elabora Una Enciclopedia de Medicina Tradicional de 500 Paginas
• Tribo Amazônica Cria Enciclopédia de Medicina Tradicional com 500 Páginas
• This Amazon tribe is Making an Encyclopedia of Traditional Medicines
• Tribu de la Amazonía Crea Enciclopedia de Medicina de 500 Páginas
• A Tribo que Criou a Primeira Enciclopédia Xamânica do Mundo
• In a World of High-Tech Health Care, This Book of Ancient Medicine Seeks to Keep Things Old School
• Protecting Sacred Life with the Matsés
• Amazonía: Pueblo Matsé Crea la Primera Enciclopedia de Medicina Natural
• Herbalgram: Amazonian Tribe Compiles 500-Page Traditional Medicine Encyclopedia
• YANA interview
• LUSH Charitable Giving Stories: Cultivating the Past: How the Matsés tribe is growing new hope for their people
• An Encyclopedia of Medicine from the Amazon
• Urfolk og røvere

SCIENTIFIC PUBLICATIONS

• Disease Concepts and Treatment by Tribal Healers of an Amazonian Forest Culture
• Significance of Biodiversity to Health
• Fleck, DW, Harder JD. “Matses Indian Rainforest Habitat Classification and Mammalian Diversity in Amazonian Peru.” Journal of Ethnobiology 2000 20(1): 1-36.
• Romanoff, S. Jiménez Huanán, DMJ, Uaquí Bëso FSU, Fleck, DW. “Matsesën Nampid Chuibanaid (La Vida Tradicional de los Matsés).” 2004 Lima: Centro Amazónico de Antropología y Aplicación Práctica.
• Fleck, DW, Voss RS, Patton JL. “Biological Basis of Saki (Pithecia), Folk Species Recognized by the Matses Indians of Amazonian Perú.” International Journal of Primatology 1999 20(6): 1005-1028.
• Fleck, DW, Dienst, S. “Pet Vocatives.” Southwestern Amazonia Anthropological Linguistics 2009 51 (3-4): 209-243.
• Fleck, DW, Harder JD. “Ecology of marsupials in Amazonian Peru.” Journal of Mammology 1995 76 (3): 809-818.
• Fleck, DW, Voss RS. “On the Origin and Cultural Significance of Unusually Large Synonym Sets in Some Panoan Languages of Western Amazonia.” Anthropological Linguistics 2006 48(4): 335-368.
• Fleck, DW. “Notions of Causation in Matses Grammar.” Journal de la Société des Américanistes 2001 87: 177-196.
• Fleck, DW. 2001. Causation in Matses (Panoan, Amazonian Peru). The Grammar of Causation and Interpersonal Manipulation. Masayoshi Shibatani (Ed.). Amsterdam: Benjamins, 373-415.
• Fleck, DW. “Ergatividade em Matses (Pano).” LIAMES 2005 5: 89-111.
• Fleck, DW. “Antipassive in Matses.” Studies in Language 2006 30(3): 541-573.
• Fleck, DW. “Body-Part Prefixes in Matses: Derivation or Noun Incorporation.” International Journal of American Linguistics 2006 72(1): 59-96.
• Fleck, DW. “Complement Clause Type and Complementation Strategies in Matses.” Complementation: A Cross-Linguistic Typology. 2006. RMW Dixon and Aikhenvald AY (Eds.) 224- 244.
• Fleck, DW. “Panoan Languages.” Encyclopedia of Languages & Linguistics. 2006. K. Brown (Ed.) Oxford: Elsevier, 156-157.
• Fleck, DW. “Did the Kulinas become the Marubos? A Linguistic and Ethnohistorical Investigation.” Tipiti Journal of The Society for the Anthropology of Lowland South America 2007 5(2): 137-207.
• Fleck, DW. “Evidentiality and Double Tense in Matses.” Language 2007 83(3): 589-614.
• Fleck, DW. “Field Linguistics Meets Biology: How to Obtain Scientific Designations for Plant and Animal names.” STUF – Language Typology and Universals 2006 60(1): 81-91.
• Voss RS, Fleck DW, Jansa SA. “On the Diagnostic Characters, Ecogeographic Distribution, and Phylogenetic Relationships of Gracilinanus emiliae (Didelphimorphia:Didelphidae:Thylamyini).” Mastozoología Neotropical 2009 16(2): 433-443.
• Fleck DW, Voss RS. “Mammalian diversity and Matses ethnomammalogy in Amazonian Peru, Part 1, Primates.” Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2011 351:1-81.
• Simmons NB, Voss, RS, Fleck DW. “A New Amazonian Species of Micronycteris (Chiroptera: Phyllostomidae) with notes on the roosting behavior of sympatric congeners.” American Museum Novitates 2002 No. 3358: 1-14.
• Munro, R. Ludwig, R, Sauerland, U, Fleck DW. “Reported speech in Matses: Perspective Persistence and Evidential Narratives.” International Journal of American Linguistics 2013 78(1): 41-75.
• Kim BK, Engstrom MD, Reid FA, Simmons NB, Voss RS, Fleck DW. “A new species of Peropteryx (Chiroptera: Emballonuridae) from Western Amazonia with Comments on Phylogenetic Relationships within the genus.” American Museum Novitates 2010. No. 3686: 1-20.
• Ludwig RA, Munro R, Fleck DW, Sauerland U. “Reported Speech in Matses: Obligatory Perspective Shift with Syntactic Transparency.” University of Massachusetts Occasional Papers 2010 41:33-47.
• Harder, JD and Fleck DW 1997. “Reproductive Ecology of New World Marsupials.” Marsupial Biology. Recent Research, New Perspectives N. Saunders, L. Hinds (Eds.) Sydney: UNSW Press, 175-203.
• Fleck, DW, Voss RS, Simmons, NB. “Underdifferentiated Taxa and Sublexical Categorization: An Example from Matses Classification of Bats.” Journal of Ethnobiology 2002 22(1): 61-102.
• Fleck, DW. “Coreferential fourth-person pronouns in Matses.” International Journal of American Linguistics 2008 74(3): 279-311.
• Fleck, DW 2010 “Ergativity in the Mayoruna branch of the Panoan family.” Ergativity in Amazonia. Gildea, Spike and Francesc Queixalós (Eds.) Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 29–64.
• Fleck, DW. “Sugerencias metodológicas para realizar trabajo de campo lingüístico en la Amazonía.” Lexis 2008 Vol. XXXII (2): 251-280.
• Fleck, DW. “Quiénes eran los Mayoruna de Tessmann?” Amazonía Peruana 2007 Tomo XV (30): 305-331.
• Jiménez Huanán, DM Jiménez Ëshco, Fleck DW. Matses Icampid (La Historia de los Matsés), Primera Parte, 1880-1947: Ëndenquio Icampid Manuel Tumin Chiubanaid (Historia Antigua Según Manuel Tumí). Tierra Nueva (2014)
• Fleck DW. “Panoan Languages and Linguistics” Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of Natural History. (2013)
• Fleck DW. Poshto Bëchun Chedo Cun Nidaidën Icquid: Los Monos de Mi Tierra. Lima: Unicef. (2013)
• Zariquiey Biondi R, Fleck DW. Animales y Plantas del Pueblo Kakataibo: Diccionario Trilingüe (Kakataibo, Español, Inglés) con Identificaciones Biológicas, Índice Alfabético Castellano-Kakataibo, Clasificación Semántica, Nombres Regionales y Definiciones Etnobiológicas. Languages of the World/Dictionaries 52, 2013, Munich: LINCOM, 266 pp.
• Fleck DW, Jiménez Huanán, DM Uaquí Bëso FS. Diccionario Matsés–Castellano: con Índice Alfabético Castellano-Matsés e Índice Semántico Castellano-Matsés. Tierra Nueva (2012)
• Krokoszynki L, Fleck DW. “The Historical and Linguistic Identity of the Remos” Tipití: Journal of the Society for the Anthropology of Lowland South America 2016 14(1): 102-130.
• Voss RS, Fleck DW, Strauss RE, Velazco PM, Simmons NB. “Roosting Ecology of Amazonian Bats: Evidence for Guild Structure in Hyperdiverse Mammalian Communities.” American Museum Novitates 2016 3870(1): 1-43.
• Velazco J, Paúl M, Soto-Centeno A, Fleck DW, Voss RS, Simmons NB. “A new species of nectar-feeding bat of the genus Hsunycteris (Phyllostomidae: Lonchophyllinae) from Northeastern Peru.” American Museum Novitates 2017 3881: 26.
• Voss RS, Fleck DW. “Mammalian Diversity and Ethnomammology in Amazonian Peru Part 2: Xenarthra, Carnivora, Perissodactyla, Artiodactyla, and Sirenia.” Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2017 417(118): 1-119.
• Voss RS, Fleck DW. “Indigenous knowledge about the great long-nosed armadillo, Dasypus kappleri (Xenarthra: Dasypodidae), in northeastern Peru”. Edentata, 2016 17:1-7.
• Voss RS, Fleck DW, Jansa SA. “Mammalian Diversity and Matses Ethnomammalogy in Amazonian Peru Part 3: Marsupials (Didelphimorphia).”Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2019 432, 87 pp.
• Velazco PM, Voss RS, Fleck DW, Simmons NB. “Mammalian Diversity and Matses Ethnomammalogy in Amazonian Peru Part 4: Bats.”Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2021 451, 199 pp.
• Fleck, DW. “Homonimia de etnónimos en la familia Pano.” Amazonía Peruana 2022 35:65-87.
• Moulian R, Fleck DW. “Variaciones sociosemióticas del simbolismo de Sol y Luna entre los pueblos pano.” Anthropologica 2023 50: 55-87.
• Voss RS, Fleck DW, Giarla TC. “Mammalian Diversity and Matses Ethnomammalogy in Amazonian Peru Part 5: Rodents.” Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2024 466, 179 pp.

PUBLISHED PEDAGOGICAL MATERIALS

• Fleck DW. Poshto Bëchun Chedo Cun Nidaidën Icquid: Los Monos de Mi Tierra. 2013. Lima: UNICEF, 20 pp.
• Fleck DW. Bëdi 1: Cuaderno de Trabajo en Comunicación en la Lengua Matsés, Primer grado de primaria. 2015. Lima: Ministerio de Educación, 150 pp.
• Fleck DW. Bëdi 2: Cuaderno de Trabajo en Comunicación en la Lengua Matsés, Segundo grado de primaria. 2015. Lima: Ministerio de Educación, 150 pp.
• Fleck DW. Tesoro de Nombres Matsés. 2016. Lima: Registro Nacional de Identificación y Estado Civil, 120 pp.
• Fleck DW. Onina Mabidiequidën Chuaid: Matsesën Bacuëbon Chiaid Dadauabanaid; Cuando el Lobo de Río Llegó en un Helicóptero, y Otros Cuentos Contados por Niños Matsés (reader). 2017. Lima: Ministerio de Educación, 97 pp.
• Fleck DW and Daniel Manquid Jiménez Huanán. Matses Ëndenquio Icampid, Bacuëbon Iste; Historia Antigua de los Matsés, Edición Escolar. 2017. Lima: Ministerio de Educación, 157 pp.
• Zariquiey R, Fleck DW., Estrella A, Estrella E, Estrella S, Odicio R, Pereira R. Animales y Plantas del Pueblo Kakataibo: Diccionario Etnobiológico. 2017. Lima: Ministerio de Educación del Perú.
• Fleck DW. Matsesëna Onquiaid Tedi Chotaquën Onqueten Chuibanaid; Diccionario Escolar Matsés-Castellano. 2018. Lima: Ministerio de Educación, 353 pp.

Matsés Elementary Readers

• Fleck DW. Onquiaid 200 ted; Aton Shubunouësh Bacuëbo Bëquiadte: 200 Palabras Matsés; Cartilla para Aprendizaje de Lectura en el Hogar. 2016. Iquitos: Grupo Tábano, 146 pp.
• Felipe Ëpë Bai Unan. Shuma Chishquido Chuibanaid (Elementary Introduction to the Ecology of Mammals). 2018. Iquitos: Grupo Tábano, 51 pp.
• Felipe Ëpë Bai Unan. Podo Choquido Icaid Chuibanaid (Elementary Introduction to the Ecology of Birds). 2018. Iquitos: Grupo Tábano, 51 pp.
• Felipe Ëpë Bai Unan. Canite Nibëdquido Chuibanaid (Elementary Introduction to the Ecology of Invertebrates). 2018. Iquitos: Grupo Tábano, 51 pp.
• Dina Jiménez Ëshco. Nuëcquid Tedi Chuibanaid (Elementary Introduction to the Ecology of Fish). 2018. Iquitos: Grupo Tábano, 51 pp.
• Dina Jiménez Ëshco. Pudun-pudunquido Chuibanaid (Elementary Introduction to the Ecology of Amphibians). 2018. Iquitos: Grupo Tábano, 51 pp.
• Felipe Ëpë Bai Unan. Tabidën Siuidquido Chuibanaid (Elementary Introduction to the Ecology of Reptiles). 2018. Iquitos: Grupo Tábano, 51 pp.
• Dina Jiménez Ëshco. Pudun-pudunquido Chuibanaid (Elementary Introduction to the Ecology of Plants). 2018. Iquitos: Grupo Tábano, 51 pp.

Advanced Ecological Matsés Readers

• Dina Jiménez Ëshco. Shuma Chishquido Uesquin Chuibanaid (Advanced Introduction to the Ecology of Mammals). 2018. Iquitos: Grupo Tábano, 81 pp.<
• Aleandro Jiménez Ëshco and Dilver Oscar Reyna Rodríguez. Podo Choquido Uesquin Chuibanaid (Advanced Introduction to the Ecology of Birds). 2020. Iquitos: Grupo Tábano, 101 pp.<
• Jessenia Carolina Fasabi Tupa. Tacbidën Siuidquido Uequin Chuibanaid (Advanced Introduction to the Ecology of Reptiles). 2021. Iquitos: Grupo Tábano, 79 pp.

PUBLISHED ELECTRONIC RESOURCES (APPS)

• Diccionario Matses-Español-English. Application for cellular telephone.
• Taxonomía de Plantas Matsés. Application for cellular telephone.
• Animales Matsés. Application for cellular telephone.
• Aprende a Leer Matsés. Application for cellular telephone.
• Animales del Pueblo Iskonawa. Application for cellular telephone.
• Cartillas del alfabeto Iskonawa. Application for cellular telephone.
• Enciclopedia Kakataibo. Application for cellular telephone.
• Animales del Pueblo Kukama. Application for cellular telephone.
• Botánica Iskonawa. Application for cellular telephone.
• Matsés Ancestral Territory Map. Application for cellular telephone.
• Memoria Iskonawa. Application for cellular telephone.

ACADEMIC THESES

• Fleck, DW. 1993. Reproductive ecology of marsupials in the rainforest of Northeastern Peru. Honor’s thesis in zoology, The Ohio State University, 60 pp.
• Fleck, DW. 1997. Mammalian diversity in rainforest habitats recognized by the Matses Indians in the Peruvian Amazon. M.S. thesis in zoology, The Ohio State University, 123 pp.
• Fleck, DW. 2003. A Grammar of Matses. Ph.D. dissertation in linguistics, Rice University, 1257 pp.
• Herndon CN. 2004. Ethnomedical analysis of an Amazonian forest tribe: Insights into the utilization of botanical diversity in healing. MD Thesis. Yale University School of Medicine. Awarded The Ferris Thesis Prize.

ARCHIVED COLLECTIONS

• Fleck, DW. 2014. Documentation of the Mayoruna Languages. London: SOAS, Endangered Languages Archive. https://elar.soas.ac.uk/Collection/MPI165233.

SPEAKING APPEARANCES

• 2/2002 “Preservación de la Medicina Indigena en la Amazonía de Surinam”
  Seminario Internacional de Etnomedicina
  Universidad El Bosque / Instituto de Etnobiología
  Bogotá, Colombia
• 1/2006 “Bioprospecting, Health & Biocultural Conservation”
  Symposium on the Bioprospecting of Tropical Medicinal Plants
  and Drug Development: Stealing Shamanic Knowledge or Sharing Biodiversity
  Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston, MA
• 12/2009 “Disease Concepts and Treatment by Tribal Healers of
  an Amazonian Forest Culture”
  Bay Area Tropical Forest Network
  Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA
• 1/2010 “How Rainforest Shamans Treat Disease”
  Dallas World Aquarium
  Dallas, TX
• 4/2010 “Tribal Healers, Conservation and Medicine”
  Keynote Address
  American Medical Writers Association Pacific Chapter Annual Meeting
  Asilomar, CA
• 05/2011 “Tribal Healers, Conservation & Medicine”
  Keynote Address
  Interdisciplinary Plant Group Symposium on Plants for the Future.
  University of Missouri
  Columbia, MO
• 11/2015 “Linking Conservation, Health, and Human Rights in Tropical Forests”
  Bay Area Tropical Forest Network
  University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA/li>

• 08/2016 “Tribal Healers, Conservation & Medicine”
  The Alston Lecture
  Atlanta Botanical Garden
  Atlanta, GA
• 12/2016 “Tribal Healers, Conservation & Medicine”
  Institute for Biodiversity Science and Sustainability Research Seminar Series
  California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, CA
• 5/2018 “Role of Technology in Conservation”
  Symposium hosted by Mongabay.org and Audubon Society
  Seattle, WA