Publications

Virtanen, PK, F. Apurinã, & A. Fernandes-Llamazares. 2023. Long-term ecological and climate changes through Amazonian Indigenous oral histories. In Climatic and Ecological Change in the Americas: A Perspective from Historical Ecology, J. Whitaker, C. G. Armstrong & D. Odonne (eds.). London: Routledge.

Virtanen, PK. 2023. Urbanity in Ancient and Present-day Southwestern Amazonia: Human-Environment Collectives, Cycles of Generosity, and their Ruptures. In Urban Imaginaries in Native Amazonia: Tales of Alterity, Power, and Defiance, Fernando Santos-Granero & Emanuele Fabiano (eds.). Tucson: Arizona University Press.

Virtanen, PK, F. Apurinã,  2022. Espaços éticos na Amazônia: reconhecendo e integrando os protocolos locais aos códigos de conduta ética na pesquisa com os povos indígenas. Maloca. Revista de Estudos Indígenas 5: 1–31.

Virtanen, PK, Francisco Apurinã Kalle Ruokolainen & Lucas Artur Manchineri 2022. The role of Guadua bamboo in land management and human societies’ formation: Indigenous perspectives on bamboo ecosystems in Southwestern Amazonia. Human Ecology 50: 1077–1088

Virtanen, PK, 2022. Grounds for political claims: Earthworks and anthropogenic soils as cultural heritage and sources of territorial legitimation in Brazilian Amazonia. Co-authored with Emilie Stoll. In Living Ruins: Native Engagements with Past Materialities in Contemporary Mesoamerica, Amazonia, and the Andes, Philippe Erickson & Valentina Vapnarsky (Eds.), pp. 147–171. Boulder: University of Colorado Press.

Virtanen, PK, 2022. Relational Epistemology and Amazonian Land-based Education: Learning the Ideas of Intra-Dependency in the Central Purus River. Anthropology & Education Quarterly 53(4): 341–356.

Casi, C., H. Guttorm & Virtanen, PK, 2021. Traditional Ecological Knowledge. In Situating Sustainability: A Handbook of Contexts and Concepts, Krieg Parker & Reetta Toivanen (eds.), pp. 181–194. Helsinki: University of Helsinki Press.