Images of Public Wealth or the Anatomy of Well-Being in Indigenous Amazonia Edited by Fernando Santos-Granero The University of Arizona Press, 2015 What is considered a good life in contemporary societies? Can we measure well-being and happiness? Reflecting a global interest on the topics of well-being, happiness, and...
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Keynote Lecture 2016 On Amazonian diversity, or old wine in new bottles X Sesquiannual Conference of SALSA William Balée, Professor, Anthropology, Tulane University In the past, questions about Amazonian diversity have focused on refuge theory, environmental gradients, and vicariance biogeography. Today, such questions have become sharply focused on whether...
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CALL FOR PAPERS: “Indigenous Brazil” The Federal Constitution of 1988, a juridical symbol of the Brazilian state's process of re-democratization, also promoted a significant alteration in the conceptual and juridical paradigm of indigenous politics in Brazil. Amongst the established rights and guarantees for Indigenous Peoples, cultural specificities, the right to historically occupied...
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Reconhecimento dos Rios Içana, Ayari e Uaupés: Apontamentos Linguisticos e Fotografias de Curt Nimuendajú Edited by Renato Athias Museu do Indio (Rio de Janeiro) and Editora of UFPE (Recife), 2015 Reconhecimento dos Rios Içana, Ayari e Uaupés contains important ethnographic and linguistic materials that Curt Nimuendaju wrote, in...
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Terence ("Terry") Turner In Memoriam: 1935-2015 Visiting Professor of Anthropology [at Cornell University], Terence Sheldon Turner, emeritus professor of anthropology at the University of Chicago, died Nov. 7, 2015, at Cayuga Medical Center of a brain hemorrhage. He was 79. “Terry was a truly eminent anthropologist and...
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Guiana Archaeology Meeting - October 2016 A Guiana Archaeology Meeting or plenary is estimated in light of the recent developments within the archaeology in Guiana (a.k.a. “the Guianas” or “the Guiana Shield”, i.e., Venezuela east of the Orinoco, Guyana, Suriname, French Guiana, and Brazil east of...
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