Matheus Azevedo Radboud University Winner of the Norm and Sibby Whitten Research Fund 2024-2025 Understanding the Dynamics of Language Contact through Psychoactive Plant Lexicon The Upper Amazon is one of many linguistically diverse areas of South America, but how this diversity developed is still relatively unknown. Large-scale language comparisons...
Read MoreNehemias Pino University of Copenhagen Winner of the Norm and Sibby Whitten Research Fund 2024-2025 The political dispute over the conceptualisation of Kichwa Forest Gardens in Ecuadorian Amazonia. Programs and projects on conservation, production and development have been part of the contemporary social dynamics in the Upper Amazonia in...
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Ana Lucía Araujo Raurau Clark University Winner of the Norm and Sibby Whitten Research Fund 2024-2025 Are Indigenous Territories enough for Indigenous peoples? Exploring land scarcity among Indigenous communities of the Peruvian Amazon Indigenous Territories (ITs) in Amazonia have gained recognition for their vital role in securing Indigenous Peoples’...
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Josephine Mullen St Andrews University Winner of the Norm and Sibby Whitten Research Fund 2023-2024 Changing Paradigms of Existential Experience Among the Eastern Tukano in the Colombian Vaupes This research aims to explore the relationship between death and existential experience among Eastern Tukano language groups who live along the...
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Alexandre Aniceto de Souza Winner of the Norm and Sibby Whitten Research Fund 2023-2024 Waiwai komo yîhcamnopura natu cehtoponhîrî komo krapa waiwî poko Bow and Arrow: Continuity and Waiwai Transformations The research site is in the Trombetas-Mapuera indigenous land in the Jatapauzinho community. I will offer some reflections on...
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Aline Oliveira Universidade de Coimbra Winner of the Norm and Sibby Whitten Research Fund 2023-2024 Amerindian Epistemologies: Indigenizing thought through Terena scientific production This project investigates the production of scientific knowledge by the Terena in the Gleba Iriri Novo Indigenous Land, exploring the journeys they make between villages and...
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