[caption id="attachment_15206" align="alignleft" width="300"] Cuicocha, Ecuador, 1997 (photo by Carlos Fausto)[/caption] Lembrança de Peter Gow In-Memoriam (bilingual Portuguese-English) Aparecida Vilaça Peter Gow foi um dos antropólogos mais originais e sensíveis que conheci. A sua tese de doutorado, uma etnografia do povo Piro/Yine da Amazônia peruana, publicada em 1991...
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Kenneth Iain Taylor (Ken), 1934-2019: An Appreciation By Janet Chernela When Kenneth Iain Taylor died on April 2, 2019, it called attention to an often overlooked, but important, chapter in the history of indigenous affairs in Brazil. Ken was one of a handful of conscientious anthropologists who...
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Patrick Menget In Memoriam: 1942-2019 Patrick Menget, a student of Claude Lévi-Strauss and the first ethnographer to work with the then-recently contacted Ikpeng people of the Xingu region of Brazil beginning in the late 196os, passed away on April 13 in Budapest. His work on the social and...
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Stephen Nugent In Memoriam: 1950-2018 By Miguel Alexiades I was very sad to learn that our colleague Stephen Nugent passed away on November 13. Many will know Steve for his pioneering and excellent work on Brazilian peasant and ribereño societies, as well as on broader social processes relating...
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Dominique Buchillet In Memoriam: 1951-2018 Dominique Buchillet, esteemed scholar and ardent Amerindian rights’ activist, passed away on June 9, 2018, at the age of 67. Dominique earned her Ph.D at the University of Paris Nanterre in 1983, and worked until retirement for the IRD (Institut de...
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Memorial session for William T. (Bill) Vickers at SALSA 2017 Conference in Lima William (Bill) Vickers (1942-2016), esteemed anthropologist, friend, and mentor, passed away on Sept. 15, 2016. Bill, as he was known, was a North American anthropologist whose five decades of scholarship and advocacy among the...
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