I wanted to share this podcast from BBC's Science in Action in which I was interviewed last Thursday on the topic of isolated indigenous societies of Amazonia. The show and starts with a 7 min segment on MERS (hence the camels pictured on the home...
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SALSA Letter on the situation of the Mashco-Piro (10.14.14) [caption id="attachment_1954" align="alignleft" width="528"] Mashco-Piro, Madre de Dios region, Peru[/caption] Letter to Diana Álvarez-Calderón Gallo, Minister of Culture, Peru [English translation] Carta enviada a la Diana Álvarez-Calderón Gallo, Ministra de Cultura, Peru [original] Carta enviada à Diana Álvarez-Calderón Gallo, Minister...
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Jonathan Hill Southern Illinois University - Carbondale SALSA President 2014-2017 Ex-Officio Member of the SALSA Board 2017-2023 Jonathan Hill is Professor and former Chair of Anthropology at Southern Illinois University and Visiting Professor at Vytautus Magnus University in Kaunas, Lithuania. He is the author of Keepers of the Sacred Chants:...
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Ethnicity in Ancient Amazonia: Reconstructing Past Identities from Archaeology, Linguistics, and Ethnohistory Edited by Alf Hornborg & Jonathan Hill University Press of Colorado, 2013 A transdisciplinary collaboration among ethnologists, linguists, and archaeologists, Ethnicity in Ancient Amazonia traces the emergence, expansion, and decline of cultural identities in indigenous Amazonia. Hornborg...
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