Situation of the Guarani Kaiowa and Ñandéva in Mato Grosso do Sul - ABA statement Immediate action or genocide permitted by the Brazilian State Given the sequence of actions by armed groups against Guarani Kaiowa and Guarani Ñandéva communities in Mato Grosso do Sul over the last...
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Illegal gold miners take over FUNAI base and airstrip near isolated Yanomami settlement in Brazil The Hutukara Yanomami Association denounced the takeover by illegal gold miners of an abandoned FUNAI base and airstrip in the vicinity of an isolated Yanomami village along the upper Catrimani River...
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Interview with William Balée: Anthropology and the future of the Amazon Looking forward to the Tenth SALSA Conference in New Orleans next January, Lauren Dodaro, a graduate student at Tulane University, interviewed conference organizer William Balée about his career in anthropology, his work in the Amazon, and his involvement with...
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Goeldi Museum opens call for grant submissions The Goeldi Museum in Belem has opened a call for grant submisions for 1-2 year institutional development grants (PCI program) to be hosted at the Museum, including a significant number of grants for senior researchers, recent PhDs and Master’s...
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Gabriel Torrealba Southern Illinois University. Winner of the Norm and Sibby Whitten Research Fund 2015 From the Rubber Boom to Neoliberalism: debt systems and Kukama narratives in the Peruvian Amazon (Preliminary research) The preliminary research for my doctoral project took place in one single trip to Peru between June...
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Religion, Science and the Future: Call for papers of the International Society for the Study of Religion, Nature and Culture (ISSRNC) Religion, Science and the Future, the 10th annual Conference of the International Society for the Study of Religion, Nature and Culture (ISSRNC) will take place in...
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