Alexandra Reichert Winner of the Norm and Sibby Whitten Research Fund 2022-2023 Indigeneity and Interculturalidad: Generating Indigenous Knowledge Exchange to Improve Birth Care in Kichwa and Waorani Communities This project will investigate understandings and practices about birth in two distinct Indigenous groups in the Ecuadorian Amazon, the Kichwa...
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Alcineis Acate Peres Winner of the Norm and Sibby Whitten Research Fund 2022-2023 Indigenous practices and knowledge in the Amazon triple frontier: The Kokama sociocultural expression at the Guanabara community school II The initial objective of this project is to investigate, through practices and knowledge, sociocultural expressions of...
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Joan Gutiérrez Rodríguez Winner of the Norm and Sibby Whitten Research Fund 2022-2023 Take care of the language to take care of life, the territory and leave it for those who come This project seeks to consolidate in a collaborative and community way a joint work strategy to...
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Meredith Cristina Castro Rios Winner of the Norm and Sibby Whitten Research Fund 2022-2023 Between smiles and masato: an approach to the values of the Shawi people through laughter Based on the approaches of the anthropology of emotions and the anthropology of humor, this study seeks, through the...
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Victor Amante Winner of the Norm and Sibby Whitten Research Fund 2021 Illegal gold and mercury: the Yanomami people amidst the impacts of mining The following project intends to analyze social relations amongst the Yanomami people in Brazil suffering the impacts of small-scale gold mining in their land...
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Sidney Castillo Winner of the Norm and Sibby Whitten Research Fund 2021 Becoming through plants: Ayahuasca rituals and ethical self-making among the indigenous peoples of northeastern Peru My objective is to study the role of ayahuasca rituals in the formation of ethical subjectivities, i.e., how people learn what to...
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