The Society for the Anthropology of Lowland South America (SALSA) is an independent professional association specializing in lowland regions of South America. SALSA’s main goals are to foster sound and ethical research and to promote education of students and the general public on issues that we study.

SALSA brings together specialists who live in Latin America, Europe, North America, and elsewhere. It seeks to facilitate connections and develop exchanges of information among them, disseminate original scholarship of high quality, and encourage students to learn about and carry out research in this region. SALSA has a voting membership with and elected board of directors, by-laws, and official status as a 501©3 non-profit corporation.

SALSA Solidarity Fund

The SALSA Solidarity Fund assists SALSA’s efforts to continue supporting Indigenous and traditional peoples’ participation in future SALSA conferences, make student awards, foster other activities, and explore new possibilities that support our goals of furthering the anthropology of Lowland South America through intellectual and collegial exchange.

Norm and Sibby Whitten Research Fund 2024-2025

Application deadline: 30 november 2024

The Norm and Sibby Whitten Research Fund supports pre-project travel grants for master and doctoral students in the early formulation of their field research. This Grant-in-Aid is to initiate contact and collaborative working relationships with host institutions and scholars, as well as with Indigenous societies and local communities and organizations. More information here.

SALSA conferences
salsa PIAC
SALSA AmaSonic
SALSA Teaching Lowland
Bennington Papers

To honor the memory of Ken Kensinger, we offer selected issues of two series of publications edited by him.

Salsa conferences

SALSA conferences are among the world’s foremost venues for presenting original research on lowland South America.

PIAC

We encourage public attention and action to address injustices, harmful policies, and human rights violations.

AmaSonic

Meeting-point for accessing links of interest, news and events about sound, spoken word and musical practices in Lowland South America.

Teaching Lowland

Themes and links aimed to provide materials, information and inspiration for teaching Lowland South American anthropology.

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New books by SALSA Members