The Bennington Meetings (1971-1996) Back in the 1960s and 1970s Robert Carneiro worked on the permanent exhibit of South American Peoples at the American Museum of Natural History. Bob belonged to a group of what was called “South Americanists” – anthropologists in the New York area...
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Kenneth Iain Taylor (Ken), 1934-2019: An Appreciation By Janet Chernela When Kenneth Iain Taylor died on April 2, 2019, it called attention to an often overlooked, but important, chapter in the history of indigenous affairs in Brazil. Ken was one of a handful of conscientious anthropologists who...
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Memorial session for William T. (Bill) Vickers at SALSA 2017 Conference in Lima William (Bill) Vickers (1942-2016), esteemed anthropologist, friend, and mentor, passed away on Sept. 15, 2016. Bill, as he was known, was a North American anthropologist whose five decades of scholarship and advocacy among the...
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SALSA Public Issues and Actions Committee (PIAC) SALSA Public Issues and Actions Committee responds to SALSA’s primary mission to support research on lowland South America, and to promote public knowledge of this region and its astonishingly rich cultural, linguistic, and biological diversity. However many of the...
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The Steven Lee Rubenstein Memorial Scholarship 2025 Call for Applications Deadline: April 1, 2025 About the Award For every SALSA conference since 2016, a travel stipend of $500 has been awarded to a graduate student, recent PhD, or precariously employed member who wishes to present their work at the...
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Janet Chernela Co-Organizer Fourth Sesquiannual Conference: Santa Fe NM, USA, 12-14 January 2007 See posts tagged Janet Chernela See post about SALSA Conference 2007 Check other SALSA Conference Organizers ...
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