SALSA’s News Archive

February

Murder threats against Tupinanba Chief Babau – Petition calling for a full investigation (2.12.19)

February 20, 2019

Cacique Babau ameaçado de morte por liderar processo de demarcação da Terra Indígena Tupinambá de Olivença, Bahia (Tupinamba Chief Babau threatened to death for leading demarcation process of the Terra Indigene Tupinamba de Olivença, Bahia) Faça parte do abaixo assinado enviando email com seu nome complete e afiliação institucional:...

February

Award to Mike Cepek for recent book on the Cofán (1.22.19)

February 9, 2019

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Mike Cepek's book Life in Oil recognized in the 2019 PROSE awards SALSA extends warm congratulations to long-time member Mike Cepek, whose book on the Cofán people was selected as a finalist of the 2019 PROSE Awards, honoring scholarly works published in 2018. Revealing how the key fuel of...

November

Stephen Nugent In Memoriam: 1950-2018 (11.13.18 )

November 20, 2018

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Stephen Nugent In Memoriam: 1950-2018 By Miguel Alexiades I was very sad to learn that our colleague Stephen Nugent passed away on November 13. Many will know Steve for his pioneering and excellent work on Brazilian peasant and ribereño societies, as well as on broader social processes relating...

November

LIFE IN OIL by Mike Cepek (2018)

November 12, 2018

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Life in Oil: Cofán Survival in the Petroleum Fields of Amazonia By Mike Cepek University of Texas Press, 2018 In Life in Oil, Mike Cepek reveals how the key fuel of the global era affects the communities where petroleum is extracted. This beautifully written ethnography describes how the Cofán people are surviving...

November

Election of Jair Bolsonaro in Brazil (11.12.18)

November 12, 2018

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SALSA Statement Regarding the Recent Election of Jair Bolsonaro as President of Brazil The Society for the Anthropology of Lowland South America, an international scholarly organization composed of 500 professors, students, and practitioners, hereby signals its concern and alarm at the recent election of Jair...

November

INDIGENOUS LIFE PROJECTS AND EXTRACTIVISM ed. by Cecilie Vindal Ødegaard & Juan Javier Rivera Andía (2019, Open access)

November 11, 2018

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Indigenous Life Projects and Extractivism Edited by Cecilie Vindal Ødegaard and Juan Javier Rivera Andía Palgrave Macmillan, 2019 (ebook, open access) Exploring indigenous life in encounters with extractivism, Indigenous Life Projects and Extrativism discusses how current turbulences actualise questions of indigeneity, difference and ontological dynamics in the Andes and...

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