Translating Worlds, Defending Land Collaborations for Indigenous Rights and Environmental Politics in Amazonia By Casey High Stanford University Press, 2025 In 2019, after decades of ecological damage from oil, Waorani people took to the streets of Amazonian Ecuador to protest drilling on their ancestral lands. Working with international activists,...
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Preliminary Program SALSA 2025 Biennial Conference Preliminary programDownload ...
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Luis Felipe Torres Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú Norm and Sibby Whitten Publication Subvention 2024-2025 The Norm and Sibby Whitten Publication Subvention Award Selection Committee (Evan Killick, chair, Lukas Keese and Juliana Oliveira Silva) awarded a grant to Luis Felipe Torres Espinoza for his book, “Wutsrukatenni Pirana - Historia de nuestros antiguos...
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Awardees Norm and Sibby Whitten Publication Subvention 2024-2025 Please join me and members of this year’s Norm and Sibby Whitten Publication Subvention Award Selection Committee (Evan Killick, chair, Lukas Keese and Juliana Oliveira Silva) in congratulating this year’s award winners. The 2004-25 awardees are: Julie Velásquez Runk with Wounaan Podpa Nʌm Pömaam and...
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Sorcery in Amazonia A Comparative Exploration of Magical Assault Edited by James Andrew Whitaker, Matthias Lewy, and Tarryl Janik Ibero-Amerikanisches Institut, 2025 Although shamanism has become a well-developed and expansive topic within the anthropology of Amazonia, the ethnographic literature focusing on sorcery has been sporadic and sparse by comparison. This has...
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Indigenous and Traditional Community participants SALSA 2025 Biennial Conference . Indigenous and Traditional Peoples’ Membership and Registration If you are a member of an Indigenous Nation or Traditional Group (e.g. Riverine, Afro-descendant, Extractivist community), SALSA waives your conference registration and SALSA membership fees. Indigenous and Traditional Peoples, unlike others, do not have to join...
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