SALSA’s News Archive

Sorcery in Amazonia

Sorcery in Amazonia, ed. by J.A. Whitaker, M. Lewy & T. Janik (2025)

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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University of Helsinki

SALSA 2025 Indigenous and Traditional Community participants

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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The Shamanism of Eco-Tourism

THE SHAMANISM OF ECO-TOURISM, by J. Whitaker (2025)

The Shamanism of Eco-Tourism History and Ontology among the Makushi in Guyana By James Andrew Whitaker Cambridge University Press, 2025 In The Shamanism of Eco-Tourism. the first book in English to focus specifically on the Makushi in Guyana, James Andrew Whitaker examines how shamanism informs Makushi interactions with outsiders in...

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Roberta Queiroz Hesse

Roberta Queiroz Hesse – Whitten Research Fund 2024-25

Roberta Queiroz Hesse Universidade de São Paulo Winner of the Norm and Sibby Whitten Research Fund 2024-2025   Políticas indígenas do trabalho: pensando sobre corpos e empregos com famílias guarani, kaingang e xetá do baixo Tibagi Este projeto versa sobre o tema das relações de trabalho de indígenas kaingang, guarani e xetá do...

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Marie-Eve Courtemanche

Marie-Eve Courtemanche – Whitten Research Fund 2024-25

Marie-Eve Courtemanche Université Laval Winner of the Norm and Sibby Whitten Research Fund 2024-2025   Cosmopolitics of the body-territory: Huni Kuin women and contemporary Indigenous art in the Brazilian Amazon This research project focuses on the Huni Kuin women of the Terra Indígena Kaxinawá do Rio Jordão (Acre, Brazil), who mobilize art...

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José Gabriel Davila

José Gabriel Davila – Whitten Research Fund 2024-25

José Gabriel Davila Universidad Nacional de Colombia - Amazonia Campus Winner of the Norm and Sibby Whitten Research Fund 2024-2025   Documentación y apropiación de las trampas tradicionales de pesca murui  Esta investigación busca la documentación y apropiación de los saberes ecológicos, técnicos y culturales de las trampas de pesca...

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