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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María Antonieta Guzmán-Gallegos VID Specialized University- Oslo Member-at-Large of the SALSA Board 2020-2024 María Antonieta Guzmán-Gallegos is Associate Professor at VID Specialized University- Oslo. Her research explores how the constitution of persons - of gendered bodies - interweaves with perceptions of and practices related to human and non-human...
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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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Daniela Peluso University of Kent Member-at-Large of the SALSA Board 2016-2022 Daniela Peluso is a social-cultural anthropologist who received her PhD from Columbia University in 2003. Dr Peluso's research interests range from Amazonian to corporate environments and her teaching brings together divergent and similar aspects of the 'exotic'...
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Natalia Buitron University of Cambridge Member-At-Large of the SALSA Board 2019 - 2024 Natalia Buitron is the Jessica Sainsbury Assistant Professor in the Anthropology of Amazonia in the department of anthropology at Cambridge, and she completed her Ph.D at the London School of Economics. Her research explores political...
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