SALSA’s News Archive

Daniel Zohar

Daniel Zohar – Whitten Research Fund 2024-25

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

Matheus Azevedo – Whitten Research Fund 2024-25

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...

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Nehemias Pino – Whitten Research Fund 2024-25

Nehemias 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-Lucia-Araujo-Raurau

Ana Lucía Araujo Raurau – Whitten Research Fund 2024-25

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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University of Helsinki

Preliminary Panels, Workshops and Special Events

Panels, Workshops and Special Events SALSA 2025 Biennial Conference Preliminary Panels P01. Indigenous Reciprocity: Reflections and Controversies [OPEN PANEL]  Organisers  Artionka Capiberibe, [email protected]  Beatriz Labate, [email protected]  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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