Indigenous rights reversals in Brazil under Bolsonaro We are pleased to publish the papers and presentations resulting from a debate on policy setbacks and indigenous rights reversals in Brazil under Bolsonaro, and how to fight back, which took place during the XII Sesquiannual Conference in Vienna (June 2019). Right wing...
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George Mentore Organizer XIII SALSA Biennial Conference - University of Virginia Charlottesville, 24-27 June 2021 Ex-Officio Member of the SALSA Board from July 1, 2019 to June 30, 2021 From George Mentore's homepage: The disciplinary effects of anthropology have over the years gradually framed and reframed my current research interests. ...
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Natalia Buitron University of Cambridge Member-At-Large of the SALSA Board 2019 - 2024 Natalia Buitron is the Jessica Sainsbury Assistant Professor in the Anthropology of Amazonia in the department of anthropology at Cambridge, and she completed her Ph.D at the London School of Economics. Her research explores political...
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Giancarlo Rolando University of Virginia Member-At-Large of the SALSA Board 2019 - 2024 Giancarlo Rolando is a sociocultural anthropologist interested in the politics of Indigenous/settler relations in Lowland South America, with a focus on Indigenous ideas of personhood, relatedness, and morality. For his doctoral dissertation, Giancarlo conducted ethnographic...
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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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