Ken Kensinger In Memoriam: 1931-2010 Dear Salsa members: Sara and I are deeply saddened by news of Ken Kensinger's death. Rarely do such ample doses of kindness, gentle wit, and sharp intelligence occur in one individual. Take a bunch of cantankerous, underemployed, yet vain academics, put...
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Governing Indigenous Territories: Enacting Sovereignty in the Ecuadorian Amazon By Juliet S. Erazo Duke University Press, 2013 Governing Indigenous Territories illuminates a paradox of modern indigenous lives. In recent decades, native peoples from Alaska to Cameroon have sought and gained legal title to significant areas of land, not...
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Carlos D. Londoño Sulkin Academic Program Chair Eighth Sesquiannual Conference: Nashville, TN, USA, 7-10 March 2013 See posts tagged Carlos D. Londoño Sulkin See posts about SALSA Conference 2013 Check other SALSA Academic Program Chairs ...
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Beth A. Conklin Organizer Eighth Sesquiannual Conference: Nashville, TN, USA, 7-10 March 2013 See posts tagged Beth A. Conklin See posts about SALSA Conference 2013 Check other SALSA Conference Organizers ...
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Conversations in the Lobby 2013 SALSA VIII Sesquiannual Conference, Nashville Organizer: Carlos D. Londoño Sulkin (University of Regina) Time: March 9th, 2013, 8:30-10:10 a.m. Location: Vanderbilt University, Buttrick 101 Carlos David Londoño organized a special session called Conversations in the Lobby. This event was planned in fond memory of Steven Rubenstein’s...
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SALSA Statement on ethical commitments 3 January 2013 The board of the Society for the Anthropology of Lowland South America (SALSA) wishes to respond to the recent revival of debates concerning Napoleon Chagnon’s work by reaffirming its core ethical commitments: that the well-being of Amazonia’s vulnerable peoples must...
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