Manuel Lizarralde Connecticut College Member-at-large candidate 2020 Dr. Manuel Lizarralde is Venezuelan and an Associate Professor of Ethnobotany, teaching in the Botany Department and Environmental Studies Program at Connecticut College since 1998. Dr. Lizarralde’s principal research focus is the botanical and ecological knowledge of indigenous people of...
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Pirjo Kristiina Virtanen University of Helsinki Member-at-large candidate 2020 Pirjo Kristiina Virtanen received her doctorate in Latin American studies from the University of Helsinki in 2007. She has carried out fieldwork in southwestern Amazonia, especially with the Arawak-speaking Manchineri and Apurinã in the Purus River region, Brazil....
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María Antonieta Guzmán-Gallegos VID Specialized University- Oslo Member-at-large candidate 2020 María Antonieta Guzmán-Gallegos is Associate Professor at VID Specialized University- Oslo. Her research explores how the constitution of persons - of gendered bodies - interweaves with perceptions of and practices related to human and non-human sociality. In her...
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SALSA Elections / Elecciones / Eleçoes 2020 (Link and instructions to the ballots at the bottom of the page / Enlace e instrucciones para votar al final de la página / Link e instruções para votar na parte inferior da página) The Society for the Anthropology of...
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[fullwidth_text alt_background="none" width="1/1" el_position="first last"] Open Letter to Brazilian Authorities and Society at Large on the Dangers of the Covid-19 Pandemic for Isolated Indigenous Peoples [/fullwidth_text] [spb_text_block pb_margin_bottom="no" pb_border_bottom="no" width="1/1" el_position="first last"] Public statement regarding the possible exposure of isolated indigenous peoples in Brazil to Covid-19, approved...
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Letter issued by Gobierno-Propio, an indigenous organization from Vaupés relating to the pandemic outbreak and the impact on their territories Dear Salser@s, I am sharing with you a letter issued from Gobierno-Propio, an indigenous organization from Vaupés. This organization is interested in circulating the letter widely as...
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