Celebration: Photographs of the Guna Chicha Celebración: Fotografías de la Chicha Guna By James Howe Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute & Congreso General de la Cultura Guna, 2016 The Guna of Panama, famous for their visual and verbal art, celebrate the coming of age of their daughters in dramatic village-wide...
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Maria Ximena Flores Rojas winner or the Norm and Sibby Whitten Research Fund 2019 Maria Ximena Flores Rojas, graduate student of the Museu Nacional - Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, was one of the winners of a 2019 Norm and Sibby Whitten Research Fund Award of US$2,000 for...
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Ronaldo de Queiroz Lima winner or the Norm and Sibby Whitten Research Fund 2019 Ronaldo de Queiroz Lima, graduate student of the Universidade Federal da Bahia and Researcher at the Universidade Federal de Ceará, was one of the winners of a 2019 Norm and Sibby Whitten Research Fund Award...
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SALSA Website and Social Media Team 5-20-20 The maintenance of the the SALSA-Tipití website and social media is now supported by the following SALSA Members: SALSA Webmaster Juan Alvaro Echeverri Universidad Nacional de Colombia, sede Amazonia. From July 1, 2019 thru June 30, 2022. CV: http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3781211 Associate Webmaster Filip Rogalski Institute of Philosophy and Sociology,...
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Results of the SALSA 2020 Elections for the Board of Directors 8 May 2020 The Society for the Anthropology of Lowland South America (SALSA) held elections in April and May of 2020. Pirjo Kristiina Virtanen (head of Indigenous Studies program at the University of Helsinki, Finland) and Maria...
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Norm and Sibby Whitten Research Fund 2020-2021 Application deadline: November 15, 2020 (see guidelines in PDF format) The Norm and Sibby Whitten Research Fund 2020-2021 supports pre-project travel grants for full- time graduate students in the early stages of formulating their dissertation research proposal. This Grant-in-Aid is to...
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