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Keynote Lecture 2007 Stephen Hugh-Jones

Keynote Lecture 2007: Stephen Hugh-Jones

Keynote Lecture 2007 DIY Anthropology: Some reflections on self-reflection in northwest Amazonia SALSA IV Sesquiannual Conference, Santa Fe Stephen Hugh-Jones, Fellow in Social Anthropology, King’s College, Cambridge University In this talk I will consider the series Coleção Narradores Indigenas do Rio Negro, eight volumes of mythology and other materials...

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From Honey to Ashes

From Honey to Ashes (2006)

From Honey to Ashes Lucas Bessire, 2006 In March 2004, one of the world's last voluntarily isolated groups of hunter-gatherers walked out of the forest in northern Paraguay, fleeing ranchers' bulldozers. They formed a new village with their more settled relatives, where they confronted the complexities...

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Loretta Cormier

Loretta Cormier: Secretary-Treasurer 2005-2008

  Loretta Cormier University of Alabama at Birmingham Secretary-Treasurer 2005-2008 From Loretta Cormier's webpage: I have done research in a wide variety of areas, but all relate to historical ecology, a multidisciplinary field that explores human-ecological relationships over time. As a Fulbright scholar, I worked with the Awá-Guajá, a group...

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Janet Chernela: SALSA President 2005-2008

Janet Chernela University of Maryland SALSA President 2005-2008 Janet Chernela is a Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Maryland.  After receiving her PhD from Columbia University in 1983, she served on the faculty of the Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia (National Institute of Amazonian...

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