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...
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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...
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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...
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Cacique Babau ameaçado de morte por liderar processo de demarcação da Terra Indígena Tupinambá de Olivença, Bahia (Tupinamba Chief Babau threatened to death for leading demarcation process of the Terra Indigene Tupinamba de Olivença, Bahia) Faça parte do abaixo assinado enviando email com seu nome complete e afiliação institucional:...
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Mike Cepek's book Life in Oil recognized in the 2019 PROSE awards SALSA extends warm congratulations to long-time member Mike Cepek, whose book on the Cofán people was selected as a finalist of the 2019 PROSE Awards, honoring scholarly works published in 2018. Revealing how the key fuel of...
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Managing Multiculturalism: Indigeneity and the Struggle for Rights in Colombia By Jean Jackson Stanford University Press, 2019 Indigenous people in Colombia constitute a mere three percent of the national population. Colombian indigenous communities' success in gaining collective control of almost thirty percent of the national territory is nothing short...
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