Daniel Zohar London School of Economics Winner of the Norm and Sibby Whitten Research Fund 2024-2025 Growing Agency: The Transformation of Plant Subjectivity in Amazonia in the Anthropocene Ethnographies from Amazonia and beyond show that many Indigenous groups maintain social and kinship relations with plants, animals, and other beings...
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Matheus Azevedo Radboud University Winner of the Norm and Sibby Whitten Research Fund 2024-2025 Understanding the Dynamics of Language Contact through Psychoactive Plant Lexicon The Upper Amazon is one of many linguistically diverse areas of South America, but how this diversity developed is still relatively unknown. Large-scale language comparisons...
Read MoreNehemias Pino University of Copenhagen Winner of the Norm and Sibby Whitten Research Fund 2024-2025 The political dispute over the conceptualisation of Kichwa Forest Gardens in Ecuadorian Amazonia. Programs and projects on conservation, production and development have been part of the contemporary social dynamics in the Upper Amazonia in...
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Ana Lucía Araujo Raurau Clark University Winner of the Norm and Sibby Whitten Research Fund 2024-2025 Are Indigenous Territories enough for Indigenous peoples? Exploring land scarcity among Indigenous communities of the Peruvian Amazon Indigenous Territories (ITs) in Amazonia have gained recognition for their vital role in securing Indigenous Peoples’...
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Whitten Research Fund Winners of the Norm and Sibby Whitten Research Fund 2024-2025 Happy New Year Salserxs! I am so pleased begin the year sharing with you (below) the winners of the 2024-25 Norm & Sibby Whitten Research Award. Many thanks to the Whitten Research Award Selection Committee Paul...
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Panels, Workshops and Special Events SALSA 2025 Biennial Conference Preliminary Panels P01. Indigenous Reciprocity: Reflections and Controversies [OPEN PANEL] Organisers Artionka Capiberibe, artionka@unicamp.br Beatriz Labate, bia@chacruna.net Abstract Challenges and controversies surround the debate on Indigenous reciprocity. The historical genocide of Indigenous peoples and other colonial tactics such as suppression of Indigenous languages, practices, and traditions...
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