Austin Howard Florida State University 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....
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Luis Garcia Falcon Florida International University 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...
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Felix Uhl Philipp University Marburg 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...
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Lana Gabriela Guimarães Melo Universidade Federal do Pará 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...
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Norm and Sibby Whitten Research Fund 2023-2024 Application deadline: November 30, 2023Extended until December 6, 2023 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...
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Carolina Rodriguez Alzza Winner of the Norm and Sibby Whitten Research Fund 2022-2023 Iskonawa verbal arts: language and performance in a context of language revitalization This project aims to examine the genres of Iskonawa verbal arts, performance, and linguistic features in the Peruvian Amazon. From a discourse-centered approach,...
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