Clarice Cohn Universidade Federal de São Carlos Member-at-large of the SALSA Board 2024 - 2027 Clarice Cohn is Professor of Anthropology at the Federal University of São Carlos, Brazil. For three decades, she has carried out research among the Xikrin of Terra Indígena Trincheira-Bacajá (Pará, Brazilian Amazon)....
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Edson Krenak University of Vienna / Cultural Survival Member-at-large of the SALSA Board 2024 - 2027 Edson Dorneles de Andrade, known primarily as “Edson Krenak,” is an Indigenous activist, scholar, and writer. He is currently a doctoral candidate, completing his degree in legal anthropology, at the University of Vienna,...
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Matthias Lewy Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts / Universidade de Brasilia Member-At-Large of the SALSA Board 2022-2025 Matthias Lewy is a Senior Researcher at the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts (LUASA) and a Professor Colaborador at the Departamento de Música (Programa de Pós-Graduação em Música/PPGMus) of...
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Laura Mentore Mary Washington University Member-At-Large of the SALSA Board 2022-2025 Laura Mentore received her Ph.D. in Social Anthropology from the University of Cambridge. Her primary areas of specialization include environmental anthropology, critical theories of development, indigenous cosmologies and social movements. Her research is based in Lowland South America (Amazonia) and...
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Pirjo Kristiina Virtanen University of Helsinki Member-at-Large of the SALSA Board 2020 - 2024 Pirjo Kristiina Virtanen received her doctorate in Latin American studies from the University of Helsinki in 2007. She has carried out fieldwork in southwestern Amazonia, especially with the Arawak-speaking Manchineri and Apurinã in...
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Giancarlo Rolando University of Virginia Member-At-Large of the SALSA Board 2019 - 2024 Giancarlo Rolando is a sociocultural anthropologist interested in the politics of Indigenous/settler relations in Lowland South America, with a focus on Indigenous ideas of personhood, relatedness, and morality. For his doctoral dissertation, Giancarlo conducted ethnographic...
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