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Munkuruku anthropologist and archaeologist

February

Munduruku anthropologist and archaeologist defend their undergraduate dissertations at UFOPA (2-5-20)

February 5, 2020

First Munduruku anthropologist and archaeologist defend their undergraduate dissertations at the Universidade Federal do Oeste do Pará In late November and early December, Jair Boro Munduruku and Eliano Kirixi Munduruku defended their undergraduate dissertations, respectively in archaeology and anthropology, within the Universidade Federal do Oeste do Pará’s...

January

Blanca Yagüe winner of Whitten Research Fund 2019

January 28, 2020

In Awards and Funding, SALSA's News Archive, Whitten Research Awardee

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Blanca Yagüe Winner or the Norm and Sibby Whitten Research Fund 2019 Indigenous foods in Vaupés, Colombia The purpose of this proposal is to get approval from local indigenous leaders and communities to develop my investigation in the Vaupés region, strengthen collaboration, and obtain empirical data that will...

January

PANEL 01: Urban Imaginaries in Native Amazonia

January 25, 2020

In Conferences, SALSA 2019 Panels

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PANEL 01: Urban Imaginaries in Native Amazonia: Tales of Alterity, Power, and Defiance SALSA XII Sesquiannual Conference - Vienna, 2019 Organizers: Fernando Santos-Granero, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute Emanuele Fabiano, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú – PUCP, Peru Chairs: Fernando Santos-Granero, Emanuele Fabiano Discussant: Jonathan D. Hill, Southern Illinois University - Carbndale,...

Creating, Transforming, Transmitting… - Creative Processes in Myth, Ritual and the Everyday in Lowland South America

January

PANEL 02: Creating, Transforming, Transmitting

January 25, 2020

In Conferences, SALSA 2019 Panels, Sound News

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PANEL 02: Creating, Transforming, Transmitting… - Creative Processes in Myth, Ritual and the Everyday in Lowland South America SALSA XII Sesquiannual Conference - Vienna, 2019 Organizers: Ernst Halbmayer, Philipps-Universität Marburg, Germany Anne Goletz, Philipps-Universität Marburg, Germany Chairs: Ernst Halbmayer, Anne Goletz This panel focuses on creative processes and the semantics fields...

Indigenous futures: anthropology of the forthcoming in native Amazonia

January

PANEL 03: Indigenous futures

January 25, 2020

In Conferences, SALSA 2019 Panels

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PANEL 03: Indigenous futures: anthropology of the forthcoming in native Amazonia SALSA XII Sesquiannual Conference - Vienna, 2019 Organizers: Camilla Morelli, University of Bristol, UK Amy Penfield, University of Bristol, UK Chairs: Camilla Morelli, Amy Penfield Abstract: This panel considers how indigenous Amazonians imagine, discuss and negotiate the future amidst radical...

January

PANEL 04: The Chibchan Peoples

January 25, 2020

In Conferences, SALSA 2019 Panels

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PANEL 04: The Chibchan Peoples SALSA XII Sesquiannual Conference - Vienna, 2019 Organizers: Manuel Lizarralde, Connecticut College, USA Juan Camilo Niño Vargas, Universidad de los Andes, Colombia Stephen Beckerman, Universidad de los Andes, Colombia Chair: Juan Camilo Niño Vargas Abstract: At contact, the Chibchan speaking peoples inhabited a compact zone stretching from...