Luis Garcia Falcon Winner of the Norm and Sibby Whitten Research Fund 2023-2024 Napo Gold Rush: Perceptions and Responses to Mining in the Ecuadorian Amazon Since 2017, Ecuador has had three consecutive center-right governments who have continued to promote Ecuador's extractive industries as the future of its development...
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Felix Uhl Winner of the Norm and Sibby Whitten Research Fund 2023-2024 Shaping Worlds through Music: Huni Kuin Music as the Making of Modernities and Belongings My PhD project focuses on how Brazilian Huni Kuin of the Jordão and Tarauacá rivers use music to shape an indigenous modernity,...
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Lana Gabriela Guimarães Melo Winner of the Norm and Sibby Whitten Research Fund 2023-2024 For a present past: archaeology as school content in indigenous basic education In this project, I propose to carry out a bibliographical survey of academic research in archaeology, anthropology and history carried out on...
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XIV SALSA Biennial Conference Extracción, resistencia y praxis chamánica Evento especial organizado por E. Jean Langdon y Scott Robinson Em julho de 2023, a XIV Conferência Bienal de SALSA (Sociedade para a Antropologia das Terras Baixas de Sul América) foi realizada em Letícia, Colômbia. O INCT Brasil Plural...
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SALSA Elections 2023 For 4 Members-at-Large and President 2027-2031 Ballots were open January 8-22, 2024 Salserxs, I am very pleased to announce the results of our recent elections. Our members confirmed Laura Zanotti as president-elect (president 2027-2031). Edson Krenak and Clarice Cohn step as Members-at-Large onto the board now for...
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Laura R. Graham University of Iowa President-Elect 2020-2023 President 2023-2027 Laura R. Graham is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Iowa. Her research on Indigenous agency and politics of representation focuses on the A’uwẽ-Xavante of central Brazil, where she has worked since 1981, and also on Wayuu of Venezuela. Laura has...
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