SALSA Meetings Keynote Speakers

Keynote Lecture 2016

Keynote Lecture 2016: William Balée

Keynote Lecture 2016 On Amazonian diversity, or old wine in new bottles  X Sesquiannual Conference of SALSA William Balée, Professor, Anthropology, Tulane University In the past, questions about Amazonian diversity have focused on refuge theory, environmental gradients, and vicariance biogeography. Today, such questions have become sharply focused on whether...

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Keynote Lecture 2014

Keynote Lecture 2014: Alf Hornborg

Keynote lecture  2014 Persons, Things, and Perceptions in Indigenous Amazonia: Comparative Reflections on Animism, Fetishism, and Perspectivism 2014 IX Sesquiannual Conference, Gothenburg Alf Hornborg (Professor, Human Ecology Division, Lund University). Alf Hornborg delivered the Keynote Lecture of the 2014 SALSA Conference, on June 28th 2014, 6:00 PM, at the Assembly...

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SALSA Keynote Lecture 2013 Anthony Seeger

Keynote Lecture 2013: Anthony Seeger

Keynote Lecture 2013 Speech, Music, and Place from the Grand Ole Opry to the Grander, Older, Amazon and Orinoco VIII Sesquiannual Conference, Nashville Anthony Seeger, Emeritus Professor UCLA, and Director Emeritus Smithsonian Folkways Recordings Anthony Seeger delivered the Keynote Lecture 2013, accompanied with a banjo, with the title "Speech, Music, and...

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Keynote Lecture 2011: Davi Kopenawa

Keynote Lecture 2011: Davi Kopenawa

Keynote Lecture 2011 Keynote address by Davi Kopenawa SALSA VII Sesquiannual Conference, Belém do Pará Davi Kopenawa Yanomami, President, Hutukara Davi Kopenawa Yanomami, shaman and spokesman for the Yanomami people, delivered the Keynote Lecture 2011. He led the long-running international campaign to secure Yanomami land rights, for which he gained...

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Joanna Overing Claude Lévi-Strauss

Keynote Lecture 2008: Joanna Overing & Claude Lévi-Strauss

Keynote Lecture 2008 Joint keynote address by Joanna Overing (in Oxford) & Claude Lévi-Strauss (from Paris) SALSA V Sesquiannual Conference, Oxford/Paris Joanna Overing, Professor, Department of Social Anthropology, University of St. Andrews Claude Lévi-Strauss, Chair of Social Anthropology, Collège de France The Keynote Lecture 2008 was double: our distinguished keynote speaker...

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