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 Living with HIV among the Awajún, Peruvian Amazonia Desde el 2005 los awajún del distrito de El Cenepa vienen luchado contra el VIH/SIDA. El objetivo de mi investigación es ampliar la comprensión de las...
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Ronaldo de Queiroz Lima Winner or the Norm and Sibby Whitten Research Fund 2019 Anacé people: kinship, creation of places and Indigenous leadership This project looks at the elaboration of Anacé ethnicity based on kinship and the creation of places as a production of Indigenous conditions linking the...
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SALSA Website and Social Media Team 7-7-2025 The maintenance of the the SALSA-Tipití website and social media is now supported by the following SALSA Members: SALSA Webmaster Juan Alvaro EcheverriUniversidad Nacional de Colombia, sede Amazonia. From July 1, 2019. CV: https://juanecheverri.infoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4627-9559 salsatipiti.webmaster@gmail.com Social Media Manager Carolina Fuentes Lizama Universidad Arturo Prat, Chile carol.fuentes.lizama@gmail.com ...
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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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