Letter issued by Gobierno-Propio, an indigenous organization from Vaupés relating to the pandemic outbreak and the impact on their territories Dear Salser@s, I am sharing with you a letter issued from Gobierno-Propio, an indigenous organization from Vaupés. This organization is interested in circulating the letter widely as...
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"The Fish Trap", by G. Shepard, chosen by SAPIENS to celebrate World Poetry Day "The Fish Trap", a poem by anthropologist-poet Glenn Shepard, who works with Indigenous peoples in Latin America, was chosen by SAPIENS to celebrate World Poetry Day. This is Shepard's introduction to his poem: The...
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Linguistic group ‘Jivaro’ changes name to ‘Aénts Chicham’ (abbr. Chicham) A declaration to change the name of the language family formerly known as 'Jivaro' to 'Aents Chicham' (or Chicham) was signed by a collective of Shuar and Achuar intellectuals/political figures and scholars during the collaborative congress...
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ABA's Declaration concerning Brazilian Government authorization of research and extraction of minerals and hydrocarbons in Indigenous Lands SALSA joins its voice to that of the Brazilian Association of Anthropology (ABA), which recently published a letter criticizing the Brazilian government's authorization of mineral prospecting on indigenous territories....
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SALSA members presenting at BFE 2020 [UPDATE 3-20-20: Due to the COVID-19 pandemic the BFE Conference has been postponed for 2021] SALSA Members Matthias Lewy, Bernd Brabec de Mori and Juan Castrillón will be presenting their work at the British Forum of Ethnomusicology (BFE) 2020 In this occasion,...
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Listening to Brian Moser and Donald Tayler During the conference of the Society for Ethnomusicology celebrated in Bloomington at Indiana University in November 2019, I was introduced to Andrea Zarza, the curator of the World and Traditional Music of the British Library. Our point of connection...
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