Oka Amazonie ; une forêt habitée

Description

Each exhibition is a scientific, technical and human adventure that deserves to be told... preserved and shared! By bringing the exhibition and the behind-the-scenes story of its creation to life, the new 'ExpoVerso' collection, co-published by the Toulouse Museum and MUSEO Publishing, offers a scripted and updated interpretation of a theme while giving a voice to scientists and professionals.

These stories highlight the original contributions of the many professions involved in putting these events together, through interviews and richly illustrated reports. Enough to satisfy enthusiasts and the curious alike, and perhaps even inspire a few vocations... In this book, 'OKA Amazonie', you can take a piece of the history of the inhabited forest with you. With its riches and millennia-old specificities, this history is experienced above all in the present thanks to the testimonies of scientists and indigenous peoples.

There are numerous references to the exhibition, but also some highlights associated with its creation, featuring a variety of actors: from ethnologists observing indigenous people in their daily lives to naturalist field missions to museum reserves, from 3D technologies to the taxidermy laboratory... Readers will thus be able to go behind the scenes of the exhibition's preparation and learn more about these French people across the Atlantic, since in the Amerindian language Kalina, the term 'OKA' means 'what's the news?'.