Open Letter Regarding the Recent Amazon Fires in Brazil Amazon fires' explosion is not natural, and this year’s record-breaking conflagration is not new. Indigenous peoples have managed fire in an ecologically sustainable fashion for millennia. But since Brazil began to encourage agricultural colonization in the region...
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Applications open for 2019-2020 Norm and Sibby Whitten Research Fund (Deadline November 15, 2019) The SALSA Executive Board is pleased to announce the 2019-2020 call for applications for the Norm and Sibby Whitten Research Fund (which is different from the Norm and Sibby Whitten Publication Subvention Fund). This Award...
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Letter to the Venezuelan Government Regarding Crimes against Pemón Indigenous Peoples The Society for the Anthropology of Lowland South America (SALSA), an international organization of academic experts on the peoples and environments of the region, strongly condemns the crimes against Pemón indigenous people by security forces of...
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Statement Regarding Recent Invasions of Indigenous Lands in Brazil by Mining Interests The Society for the Anthropology of Lowland South America (SALSA), an international organization of academic experts on the peoples and environments of the region, strongly condemns the recent indigenous land invasions in Brazil...
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Kenneth Iain Taylor (Ken), 1934-2019: An Appreciation By Janet Chernela When Kenneth Iain Taylor died on April 2, 2019, it called attention to an often overlooked, but important, chapter in the history of indigenous affairs in Brazil. Ken was one of a handful of conscientious anthropologists who...
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Slavery and Utopia: The Wars and Dreams of an Amazonian World Transformer By Fernando Santos-Granero University of Texas Press, 2018 In the first half of the twentieth century, a charismatic Peruvian Amazonian indigenous chief, José Carlos Amaringo Chico, played a key role in leading his people, the Ashaninka,...
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