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Julie Velasquez

Julie Velásquez – N & S Whitten Publication Subvention 2024-2025

Julie Velásquez Runk University of Georgia With Wounaan Podpa Nʌm Pömaam & Wir Haigpai Podpa Nʌm Majé Norm and Sibby Whitten Publication Subvention 2024-2025 The Norm and Sibby Whitten Publication Subvention Award Selection Committee (Evan Killick, chair, Lukas Keese and Juliana Oliveira Silva) awarded a grant to Julie Velásquez Runk with Wounaan Podpa...

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Translating Worlds Defending Lands copy

Translating Worlds, Defending Land, by C. High (2025)

Translating Worlds, Defending Land Collaborations for Indigenous Rights and Environmental Politics in Amazonia By Casey High Stanford University Press, 2025 In 2019, after decades of ecological damage from oil, Waorani people took to the streets of Amazonian Ecuador to protest drilling on their ancestral lands. Working with international activists,...

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Luis Felipe Torres

Luis Felipe Torres – N & S Whitten Publication Subvention 2024-2025

Luis Felipe Torres Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú Norm and Sibby Whitten Publication Subvention 2024-2025 The Norm and Sibby Whitten Publication Subvention Award Selection Committee (Evan Killick, chair, Lukas Keese and Juliana Oliveira Silva) awarded a grant to Luis Felipe Torres Espinoza for his book, “Wutsrukatenni Pirana - Historia de nuestros antiguos...

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Sibby Whitten

Awardees N & S Whitten Publication Subvention 2024-2025

Awardees Norm and Sibby Whitten Publication Subvention 2024-2025 Please join me and members of this year’s Norm and Sibby Whitten Publication Subvention Award Selection Committee (Evan Killick, chair, Lukas Keese and Juliana Oliveira Silva) in congratulating this year’s award winners.  The 2004-25 awardees are:  Julie Velásquez Runk with Wounaan Podpa Nʌm Pömaam and...

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Sorcery in Amazonia

Sorcery in Amazonia, ed. by J.A. Whitaker, M. Lewy & T. Janik (2025)

Sorcery in Amazonia A Comparative Exploration of Magical Assault Edited by James Andrew Whitaker, Matthias Lewy, and Tarryl Janik Ibero-Amerikanisches Institut, 2025 Although shamanism has become a well-developed and expansive topic within the anthropology of Amazonia, the ethnographic literature focusing on sorcery has been sporadic and sparse by comparison. This has...

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