Of Palms and People

The latest exhibition at the Ester's House, a branch of the Ethnographic Museum in Krakow, presents the Ashaninka, a people living in Peruvian Amazonia, in the Tambo river valley. Their rich culture has been explred by a researcher Joanna Sosnowska, who focused at the role of palms in Ashaninka's life and the people's influence on a local palm ecosystem.

What words, acts and gestures are the basis for a dialogue with nature? How to get to know a community that has based its existence on this dialogue? Sosonwska's presentation is more that a report, it's an ethno-botanic description of the Ashaninka's culture.