Laura Mentore Academic program chair Thirteeth Biennial Conference: Charlottesville (VA) XIII SALSA Biennial Conference – University of Virginia Charlottesville, June 24-27, 2021 Laura Mentore, Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Mary Washington. She received her Ph.D. in Social Anthropology from the University of Cambridge. Her primary areas...
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PANEL 01: Urban Imaginaries in Native Amazonia: Tales of Alterity, Power, and Defiance SALSA XII Sesquiannual Conference - Vienna, 2019 Organizers: Fernando Santos-Granero, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute Emanuele Fabiano, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú – PUCP, Peru Chairs: Fernando Santos-Granero, Emanuele Fabiano Discussant: Jonathan D. Hill, Southern Illinois University - Carbndale,...
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PANEL 02: Creating, Transforming, Transmitting… - Creative Processes in Myth, Ritual and the Everyday in Lowland South America SALSA XII Sesquiannual Conference - Vienna, 2019 Organizers: Ernst Halbmayer, Philipps-Universität Marburg, Germany Anne Goletz, Philipps-Universität Marburg, Germany Chairs: Ernst Halbmayer, Anne Goletz This panel focuses on creative processes and the semantics fields...
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PANEL 03: Indigenous futures: anthropology of the forthcoming in native Amazonia SALSA XII Sesquiannual Conference - Vienna, 2019 Organizers: Camilla Morelli, University of Bristol, UK Amy Penfield, University of Bristol, UK Chairs: Camilla Morelli, Amy Penfield Abstract: This panel considers how indigenous Amazonians imagine, discuss and negotiate the future amidst radical...
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PANEL 04: The Chibchan Peoples SALSA XII Sesquiannual Conference - Vienna, 2019 Organizers: Manuel Lizarralde, Connecticut College, USA Juan Camilo Niño Vargas, Universidad de los Andes, Colombia Stephen Beckerman, Universidad de los Andes, Colombia Chair: Juan Camilo Niño Vargas Abstract: At contact, the Chibchan speaking peoples inhabited a compact zone stretching from...
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PANEL 05: Configuraciones de la violencia y del conflicto en Espacios Periféricos SALSA XII Sesquiannual Conference - Vienna, 2019 Organizers: Laura Pérez Gil, Unversidade Federal de Paraná, Brazil Esther Jean Langdon, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Brazil Anne Marie Losonczy, Independent scholar, France Chairs: Anne Marie Losonczy, Esther Jean Langdon, Laura...
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