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Terrastories: mapping indigenous oral histories
By Amazon Conservation Team
Terrastories: mapping indigenous oral histories
By Amazon Conservation Team
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Sipaliwini • Suriname Started in January 2017 Active Education, Conservation, Research
Summary
Terrastories is a geostorytelling application built to enable local communities to locate and map their own oral storytelling traditions about places of significant meaning or value to them. http://terrastories.io
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