Ilona Ciganiková Masaryk University Winner of the Norm and Sibby Whitten Research Fund 2025-2026 Continuity and innovation of Indigenous music in Lowland South America Abstract: This research project focuses on how Indigenous people perceive and experience music between tradition and innovation as a part of the interfaces between Indigenous...
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Laura Botero University of Texas at Austin Winner of the Norm and Sibby Whitten Research Fund 2025-2026 (En)gendering Extraction: Bodies, Territories, and Dispossession in the Making of a Mining Frontier in Indigenous Amazonia Abstract: This project investigates how an emerging mining frontier is taking shape in Uwottüja (Piaroa) territories...
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Roberta Queiroz Hesse Universidade de São Paulo Winner of the Norm and Sibby Whitten Research Fund 2024-2025 Políticas indígenas do trabalho: pensando sobre corpos e empregos com famílias guarani, kaingang e xetá do baixo Tibagi Este projeto versa sobre o tema das relações de trabalho de indígenas kaingang, guarani e xetá do...
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Marie-Eve Courtemanche Université Laval Winner of the Norm and Sibby Whitten Research Fund 2024-2025 Cosmopolitics of the body-territory: Huni Kuin women and contemporary Indigenous art in the Brazilian Amazon This research project focuses on the Huni Kuin women of the Terra Indígena Kaxinawá do Rio Jordão (Acre, Brazil), who mobilize art...
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José Gabriel Davila Universidad Nacional de Colombia - Amazonia Campus Winner of the Norm and Sibby Whitten Research Fund 2024-2025 Documentación y apropiación de las trampas tradicionales de pesca murui Esta investigación busca la documentación y apropiación de los saberes ecológicos, técnicos y culturales de las trampas de pesca...
Read MoreElizabeth Swanson Andi Arizona State University Winner of the Norm and Sibby Whitten Research Fund 2024-2025 Creating the Conditions of Possibility for Kichwa Traditional Ecological Knowledge at the Intersection of Sustainability Science in the Ecuadorian Amazon The province of Napo, Ecuador is home to more than 46,000 Kichwa people,...
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