Indigenous rights reversals in Brazil under Bolsonaro We are pleased to publish the papers and presentations resulting from a debate on policy setbacks and indigenous rights reversals in Brazil under Bolsonaro, and how to fight back, which took place during the XII Sesquiannual Conference in Vienna (June 2019). Right wing...
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George Mentore Organizer XIII SALSA Biennial Conference - University of Virginia Charlottesville, 24-27 June 2021 Ex-Officio Member of the SALSA Board from July 1, 2019 to June 30, 2021 From George Mentore's homepage: The disciplinary effects of anthropology have over the years gradually framed and reframed my current research interests. ...
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XII SALSA Conference Highlights The XII Sesquiannual Conference of SALSA was held June 27-30, 2019 at Weltmuseum Wien in a very warm Viennese summer, with Claudia Augustat (Weltmusem) responsible for general conference organization, and Juan Alvaro Echeverri (Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Sede Amazonia), responsible for the academic program. Here are some preliminary photo highlights: John Hemming speaking about Natterer during...
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Claudia Augustat Organizer Twelfth Sesquiannual Conference: Vienna, Austria, June 27-30, 2019 Claudia Augustat is curator of the South America collections at Weltmuseum Wien, Vienna, with a regional focus on Amazonia. In her research, she concentrates on topics such as material culture and cultural memory, collaborative projects as well...
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Juan Alvaro Echeverri Academic program chair Twelfth Sesquiannual Conference: Vienna, Austria, June 27-30, 2019 Juan Alvaro Echeverri holds a PhD in anthropology by the New School for Social Research (NY 1997). Full Professor at the Amazonia Campus of Universidad Nacional de Colombia. Specialist in native Amazonian indigenous populations,...
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Conversations in the Lobby 2109: (Gendered) vulnerabilities and fieldwork SALSA XII Sesquiannual Conference 2019 Saturday, 29 June, 9:30-10:30, WMW Forum Organizers and chairs: Elizabeth Ewart and Laura Graham. Fieldwork, and especially the intensive, immersive, long-term fieldwork characteristic of doctoral research, is often said to be transformative. It changes us and the way we...
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