Wauja Summer Experience A collaboration with Indigenous scholars Purdue University and the Wauja community in the Xingu Indigenous Territory of Brazil are collaborating to offer an innovative, community-based ethnography Wauja Summer Experience. In this 6-credit, 3-week course, students live as guests in Wauja longhouses, participating in daily...
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Andes and Amazon Field School Ecuador Research and Study Abroad at the Intersection of Indigenous Culture and Environment The mission of the Andes and Amazon Field School is to provide quality in-country education on the Ecuadorian Amazon in a safe and comfortable setting. Each summer we bring together...
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First Munduruku anthropologist and archaeologist defend their undergraduate dissertations at the Universidade Federal do Oeste do Pará In late November and early December, Jair Boro Munduruku and Eliano Kirixi Munduruku defended their undergraduate dissertations, respectively in archaeology and anthropology, within the Universidade Federal do Oeste do Pará’s...
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Blanca Yagüe Winner or the Norm and Sibby Whitten Research Fund 2019 Indigenous foods in Vaupés, Colombia The purpose of this proposal is to get approval from local indigenous leaders and communities to develop my investigation in the Vaupés region, strengthen collaboration, and obtain empirical data that will...
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Munduruku Reclaim Funerary Urns Itig'a SALSA stands in solidarity with a group of 70 Munduruku who, on December 25 2019, peacefully reclaimed 12 Itig'a (funerary urns of their ancestors) that had been held at the Alta Floresta Museum of Natural History in Mato Grosso, Brazil....
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Working Papers on South American Indians Kenneth M. Kensinger, Series Editor Working Papers on South American Indians (WPSAI) originally appeared in seven print issues, published at irregular intervals from 1979 to 1985 by Bennington College. Kenneth M. Kensinger served as series editor. During these years, Kensinger also hosted...
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