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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A los 89 años falleció sabia indígena omagua Amelia Huanaquiri con síntomas de COVID-19 Loreto Informa News 5-13-20 La cultura de Loreto está de luto. A los 89 falleció la sabia indigena Omagua Amelia Huanaquiri Tuisima, que con su conocimiento contribuyó a la revitalización de la lengua Omagua...
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María Antonieta Guzmán-Gallegos VID Specialized University- Oslo Member-at-Large of the SALSA Board 2020-2024 María Antonieta Guzmán-Gallegos is Associate Professor at VID Specialized University- Oslo. Her research explores how the constitution of persons - of gendered bodies - interweaves with perceptions of and practices related to human and non-human...
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Pirjo Kristiina Virtanen University of Helsinki Member-at-Large of the SALSA Board 2020 - 2024 Pirjo Kristiina Virtanen received her doctorate in Latin American studies from the University of Helsinki in 2007. She has carried out fieldwork in southwestern Amazonia, especially with the Arawak-speaking Manchineri and Apurinã in...
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Saiba como ajudar indígenas e povos da floresta no combate ao coronavírus Iniciativas em todo o Brasil reúnem doações de produtos e fundos para comunidades e aldeias, mais vulneráveis a infecções respiratórias É hora de nos unirmos contra o Covid-19. Com o avanço do novo coronavírus no...
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