Beth Conklin Vanderbilt University SALSA President 2011-2014 Ex-Officio Member of the SALSA Board 2014-2020 Beth A. Conklin is a cultural and medical anthropologist specializing in the ethnography of indigenous peoples of lowland South America (Amazonia). Her research focuses on the anthropology of the body, religion and ritual, health and healing,death...
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SALSA Statements on the Belo Monte Dam Project The membership of the Society for the Anthropology of Lowland South America (SALSA), a professional association of scholars specializing in Lowland South America, wishes to express its concern regarding the proposed Belo Monte hydroelectric project in the Amazonian...
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Marcela Coelho da Souza Academic Program Chair Seventh Sesquiannual Conference: Belém, Pará, Brasil, 22-26 June 2011 From Marcela's Academia.edu page: Marcela Coelho da Souza é professora do Departamento de Antropologia da Universidade de Brasília desde 2006, possui graduação em Ciências Sociais pela Universidade de São Paulo (1985), e mestrado...
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Claudia Leonor López Garcés Co-Organizer Seventh Sesquiannual Conference: Belém, Pará, Brasil, 22-26 June 2011 Claudia Leonor López works at the Museu Paraense Emilio Goeldi (Belem do Pará). See her CV: https://scienti.minciencias.gov.co/cvlac/visualizador/generarCurriculoCv.do?cod_rh=0000565024 See posts tagged Claudia Leonor López Garcés See posts about SALSA Conference 2011 Check other SALSA Conference Organizersv ...
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Glenn Shepard Co-Organizer Seventh Sesquiannual Conference: Belém, Pará, Brasil, 22-26 June 2011 From Glenn Shepard's Ethnoground Blog: I am an ethnobotanist, medical anthropologist and film maker now working at the Goeldi Museum in Brazil. I have written on topics ranging from shamanism to human ecology to indigenous modernity. I...
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Keynote Lecture 2011 Keynote address by Davi Kopenawa SALSA VII Sesquiannual Conference, Belém do Pará Davi Kopenawa Yanomami, President, Hutukara Davi Kopenawa Yanomami, shaman and spokesman for the Yanomami people, delivered the Keynote Lecture 2011. He led the long-running international campaign to secure Yanomami land rights, for which he gained...
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