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WHO-Navigating the Uncharted Outbreak (9-19-22)

Navigating the uncharted outbreak: Spatio temporal dynamics of the COVID-19 outbreak in the Amazon World Health Organization 9-19-22 Since the emergence of SARS-CoV-2 in December 2019, the virus has since become the greatest threat to global health in the recent decade. In just eight months after the first reported...

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Gilton Mendes dos Santos

Gilton Mendes dos Santos – XIV SALSA Conference (2023)

Gilton Mendes dos Santos Universidade Federal do Amazonas UFAM Fourteenth SALSA Biennial Conference - Amazon Triple Frontier Brazil-Colombia-Peru, 27-30 July 2023 Member of the Brazil's Local Organizing Committee Gilton Mendes dos Santos is Professor at the Department of Anthropology at the Universidade Federal do Amazonas (UFAM) and coordinator of the...

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Juan Alvaro Echeverri SALSA Webmaster

Juan Alvaro Echeverri: Organizer XIV SALSA Conference (2023)

Juan Alvaro Echeverri Organizer XIV SALSA Biennial Conference - Amazon Triple Frontier Brazil-Colombia-Peru, 27-30 July 2023 Juan Alvaro Echeverri holds a PhD in anthropology by the New School for Social Research (NY 1997). Full Professor at the Amazonia Campus of Universidad Nacional de Colombia. Specialist in native Amazonian...

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Carlos Machado Dias Jr.

Carlos Machado Dias: Co-Organizer XIV SALSA Conference (2023)

Carlos Machado Dias Jr. Co-Organizer Fourteenth SALSA Biennial Conference - Amazon Triple Frontier Brazil-Colombia-Peru, 27-30 July 2023 Carlos Machado Dias Junior completed his master's and doctorate in Social Anthropology at the Universidade de São Paulo, researching among the Waiwai indigenous peoples of the Trombetas-Mapuera Indigenous Land. For 16...

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