Elliott Oakley Field Museum of Natural History Member-at-large of the SALSA Board 2024-2027 Elliott Oakley is a cultural anthropologist at the Field Museum of Natural History (Chicago, USA), where he works on an interdisciplinary team focused on conservation and community well-being in the Andes-Amazon region. Elliott’s...
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Claudia Augustat Weltmuseum Wien, Austria Member-at-large candidate 2023 As a cultural anthropologist I spent my professional life at ethnographic museums. Material culture is a focal point of societies. An object can tell as much about history as it can connect past, present and future. I have worked in...
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Clarice Cohn Universidade Federal de São Carlos Member-at-large of the SALSA Board 2024 - 2027 Clarice Cohn is Professor of Anthropology at the Federal University of São Carlos, Brazil. For three decades, she has carried out research among the Xikrin of Terra Indígena Trincheira-Bacajá (Pará, Brazilian Amazon)....
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Courtney Stafford-Walter University of Edinburgh Member-at-large candidate 2023 Courtney Stafford-Walter received her PhD from the University of St Andrews in 2018. Her fieldwork was conducted in Region 9, Guyana, in a Wapishana community, and focused primarily on indigenous education, boarding schools, and the impact of this educational...
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Edson Krenak University of Vienna / Cultural Survival Member-at-large of the SALSA Board 2024 - 2027 Edson Dorneles de Andrade, known primarily as “Edson Krenak,” is an Indigenous activist, scholar, and writer. He is currently a doctoral candidate, completing his degree in legal anthropology, at the University of Vienna,...
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Declaração da SALSA SALSA apoia às ações de desintrusão das Terras Indígenas Apyterewa e Trincheira-Bacajá 7 December 2023 [Español abajo / English below] Veja a Declaração em formato pdf A Sociedade para a Antropologia das Terras Baixas da América do Sul (SALSA), uma organização acadêmica e profissional internacional composta por...
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