Conversations in the Lobby 2109: (Gendered) vulnerabilities and fieldwork SALSA XII Sesquiannual Conference 2019 Saturday, 29 June, 9:30-10:30, WMW Forum Organizers and chairs: Elizabeth Ewart and Laura Graham. Fieldwork, and especially the intensive, immersive, long-term fieldwork characteristic of doctoral research, is often said to be transformative. It changes us and the way we...
Read More
Steven Lee Rubenstein Memorial Scholarship 2019 Juana Valentina Nieto Universidade Federale de Santa Catarina, Brazil SALSA’s Board of Directors is pleased to announce that the Stephen Lee Rubenstein Memorial Scholarship Committee has selected Dra. Juana Valentina Nieto (Universidade Federale de Santa Catarina) to receive its Travel Award to present...
Read More
SALSA Statement Regarding Academic Freedom and Public Anthropology in Colombia SALSA expresses its concern over the actions of the leadership of the Colombian Institute of Anthropology and History (ICANH, Instituto Colombiano de Antropología e Historia) to censor the perspective of professional anthropologists regarding the peaceful protest movement known...
Read More
Patrick Menget In Memoriam: 1942-2019 Patrick Menget, a student of Claude Lévi-Strauss and the first ethnographer to work with the then-recently contacted Ikpeng people of the Xingu region of Brazil beginning in the late 196os, passed away on April 13 in Budapest. His work on the social and...
Read More
Keynote Lecture 2019 Mismatches: Museums, Anthropology and Amazonia SALSA XII Sesquiannual Conference 2019 Anne-Christine Taylor, professor emeritus, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) Over the past decades, museums, particularly the large Euro-American ethnographic museums, have had trouble developing adequate presentations of Amazonian cultural productions. To some extent, this...
Read More
Donations to Francisca Keller Library of Museu Nacional SALSA is currently collecting donations in support of the project to create a new Francisca Keller Library of the Graduate Program in Social Anthropology. The original library was destroyed along with a great many treasures when the Museu...
Read More