Cecilia McCallum Universidade Federal da Bahia Associate Editor of Tipití 2022- Cecilia McCallum é de nacionalidade britânica, embora nascida na Suiça, formada em Antropologia Social no London School of Economics and Political Science, University of London, em 1989 (doutorado), e no University of Cambridge em 1979 (graduação ), iniciou...
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Amazonian Cosmopolitans Navigating a Shamanic Cosmos, Shifting Indigenous Policies, and Other Modern Projects By Suzanne Oakdale University of Nebraska Press, 2022 Amazonian Cosmopolitans focuses on the autobiographical accounts of two Brazilian Indigenous leaders, Prepori and Sabino, Kawaiwete men whose lives spanned the twentieth century, when Amazonia increasingly became the...
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Caubóis da floresta O crescimento da pecuária e a cultura de gado na Amazônia brasileira By Jeffrey Hoelle Editora da Universidade Federal do Acre - Edufac, 2021 I am happy to announce that my book, Rainforest Cowboys (UT Press, 2015) has been translated to Portuguese and is available for...
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Victor Amante Winner of the Norm and Sibby Whitten Research Fund 2021 Illegal gold and mercury: the Yanomami people amidst the impacts of mining The following project intends to analyze social relations amongst the Yanomami people in Brazil suffering the impacts of small-scale gold mining in their land...
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Sidney Castillo Winner of the Norm and Sibby Whitten Research Fund 2021 Becoming through plants: Ayahuasca rituals and ethical self-making among the indigenous peoples of northeastern Peru My objective is to study the role of ayahuasca rituals in the formation of ethical subjectivities, i.e., how people learn what to...
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Rui Harayama Winner of the Norm and Sibby Whitten Research Fund 2021 “Dor de cabeça forte”: Estratégias e usos de mediamentos controlados entre os Waiwai da terra indígena Trombetas-Mapuera Esse projeto pretende investigar os itinerários terapêuticos de indígenas waiwai da Terra Indígena Trombetas-Mapuera associado ao uso de...
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