Letter to the Venezuelan Government Regarding Crimes against Pemón Indigenous Peoples The Society for the Anthropology of Lowland South America (SALSA), an international organization of academic experts on the peoples and environments of the region, strongly condemns the crimes against Pemón indigenous people by security forces of...
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Statement Regarding Recent Invasions of Indigenous Lands in Brazil by Mining Interests The Society for the Anthropology of Lowland South America (SALSA), an international organization of academic experts on the peoples and environments of the region, strongly condemns the recent indigenous land invasions in Brazil...
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Kenneth Iain Taylor (Ken), 1934-2019: An Appreciation By Janet Chernela When Kenneth Iain Taylor died on April 2, 2019, it called attention to an often overlooked, but important, chapter in the history of indigenous affairs in Brazil. Ken was one of a handful of conscientious anthropologists who...
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Slavery and Utopia: The Wars and Dreams of an Amazonian World Transformer By Fernando Santos-Granero University of Texas Press, 2018 In the first half of the twentieth century, a charismatic Peruvian Amazonian indigenous chief, José Carlos Amaringo Chico, played a key role in leading his people, the Ashaninka,...
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XII SALSA Conference Highlights The XII Sesquiannual Conference of SALSA was held June 27-30, 2019 at Weltmuseum Wien in a very warm Viennese summer, with Claudia Augustat (Weltmusem) responsible for general conference organization, and Juan Alvaro Echeverri (Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Sede Amazonia), responsible for the academic program. Here are some preliminary photo highlights: John Hemming speaking about Natterer during...
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The Whitten Award is designed to assist with the publication of original monographs that make an important contribution to anthropological scholarship on lowland South America or to the discipline more generally. ...
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