Marco Ramírez Colombier Winner of the Norm and Sibby Whitten Research Fund 2022-2023 Migration, construction of place and territoriality from the Kukama perspective. A cross-border study Peru-Colombia-Brazil The research will bring together the perspectives of the Kukama (Tupi-Guarani) people on their link to the places they inhabit in...
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Elena Stübinger-Janas Winner of the Norm and Sibby Whitten Research Fund 2022-2023 "Welcome to the Amazon!" - Effects of English in a multilingual context in the southern Colombian Amazonian Trapezium Puerto Nariño in the southern Colombian Amazon is an area of intense ethnic and linguistic contacts, characterized by...
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Austin Howard Winner of the Norm and Sibby Whitten Research Fund 2023-2024 Exploring Inter-Ethnic Marriage Dynamics: A Study of Family Foundations and ‘ethnic’ entities in Iquitos, Peru My project will investigate the union and diversity of culture and how various Amazonian peoples perceive themselves and others. This portrait...
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Luis Garcia Falcon Winner of the Norm and Sibby Whitten Research Fund 2023-2024 Napo Gold Rush: Perceptions and Responses to Mining in the Ecuadorian Amazon Since 2017, Ecuador has had three consecutive center-right governments who have continued to promote Ecuador's extractive industries as the future of its development...
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Felix Uhl Winner of the Norm and Sibby Whitten Research Fund 2023-2024 Shaping Worlds through Music: Huni Kuin Music as the Making of Modernities and Belongings My PhD project focuses on how Brazilian Huni Kuin of the Jordão and Tarauacá rivers use music to shape an indigenous modernity,...
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Lana Gabriela Guimarães Melo Winner of the Norm and Sibby Whitten Research Fund 2023-2024 For a present past: archaeology as school content in indigenous basic education In this project, I propose to carry out a bibliographical survey of academic research in archaeology, anthropology and history carried out on...
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