Richard Reed Trinity University SALSA President 2008-2011 From Richard Reed's webpage: Most of my career has been devoted to identifying the factors that undermine small-scale, indigenous societies as they are integrated into national societies and international economies. To that end, I have been working since 1981 among a group...
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Laura Rival University of Oxford Editor of Tipití 2007-2013 Laura Rival woks on a number of interrelated projects that together illustrate her distinctive approach to the Anthropology of Nature, Society and Development. Her empirically grounded, theoretically oriented and policy-relevant research aims to renew our thinking about the relationship between environment...
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Loretta Cormier University of Alabama at Birmingham Secretary-Treasurer 2005-2008 From Loretta Cormier's webpage: I have done research in a wide variety of areas, but all relate to historical ecology, a multidisciplinary field that explores human-ecological relationships over time. As a Fulbright scholar, I worked with the Awá-Guajá, a group...
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Janet Chernela University of Maryland SALSA President 2005-2008 Janet Chernela is a Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Maryland. After receiving her PhD from Columbia University in 1983, she served on the faculty of the Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia (National Institute of Amazonian...
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Jeffrey Ehrenreich The University of New Orleans Editor of Tipití 2003-2007 Research Interests Cultural anthropology, critical theory and history of ethnology, qualitative methods, comparative religion and shamanism, medical anthropology, visual anthropology, the body as social text, culture contact and colonialism; Amazonia and Mesoamerica. Jeffrey Ehrenreich's institutional webpage: https://www.uno.edu/profile/faculty/jeffrey_ehrenreich ...
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William Balée Tulane University SALSA President 2002-2005 William Balée received his PhD from Columbia University in 1984. Field of Study: Cultural anthropology; Amazonia; historical ecology; ethnobiology. He has conducted fieldwork among Ka'apor, Guajá, Araweté, Tembé, Assurini do Xingu, and Sirionó societies. He teaches courses including cultural anthropology, ecological...
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