Fluent Selves: Autobiography, Person, and History in Lowland South America Edited by Suzanne Oakdale and Magnus Course University of Nebraska Press, 2014 Fluent Selves examines narrative practices throughout lowland South America focusing on indigenous communities in Brazil, Chile, Ecuador, and Peru, illuminating the social and cultural processes that...
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Performing Indigeneity: Global Histories and Contemporary Experiences Edited By Laura Graham & H. Glenn Penny University of Nebraska Press, 2014 Performing Indigeneity: Global Histories and Contemporary Experiences discusses the complexities of “being” indigenous in public spaces. Laura R. Graham and H. Glenn Penny bring together a set of highly...
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Space and Society in Central Brazil: A Panará Ethnography By Elizabeth Ewart Bloomsbury Publishing, 2013 Hailed once as 'giants of the Amazon', Panará people emerged onto a world stage in the early 1970s. What followed is a remarkable story of socio-demographic collapse, loss of territory, and subsequent recovery. Reduced...
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Behold the Black Caiman By Lucas Bessire University of Chicago Press, 2014 ...
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Jonathan Hill Southern Illinois University - Carbondale SALSA President 2014-2017 Ex-Officio Member of the SALSA Board 2017-2023 Jonathan Hill is Professor and former Chair of Anthropology at Southern Illinois University and Visiting Professor at Vytautus Magnus University in Kaunas, Lithuania. He is the author of Keepers of the Sacred Chants:...
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Laura R. Graham University of Iowa Member at Large of the SALSA Board 2011-2014 Laura R. Graham is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Iowa. Her research interests include cultural politics and representation; language, expressive culture and performance; semiotics; indigenous media; indigenous peoples; human rights; and advocacy....
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