Past President

Beth Conklin: SALSA President 2011-2014

Beth Conklin Vanderbilt University SALSA President 2011-2014 Ex-Officio Member of the SALSA Board 2014-2020 Beth A. Conklin is a cultural and medical anthropologist specializing in the ethnography of indigenous peoples of lowland South America (Amazonia). Her research focuses on the anthropology of the body, religion and ritual, health and healing,death...

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Richard Reed: SALSA President 2008-2011

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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Janet Chernela: SALSA President 2005-2008

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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