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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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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SALSA endorses statement by SLACA regarding Trump's demonization of Latinos Since his inauguration, U.S. President Donald J. Trump has followed the most dangerous scripts of nationalistic and xenophobic governance, whipping up a frenzy of inchoate fears and hatred among his supporters. His anti-Latinx rhetoric of demonization...
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