Curagandeccu Ttu'fa'cho Paqque'suma Cómo los chamanes prevenían la enfermedad How shamans stopped the sickness 10 de mayo de 2020 Una canción escrita e interpretada por Euclides Criollo en A'ingae, el idioma del pueblo cofán de la Amazonía ecuatoriana y colombiana. Michael Cepek lo transcribió y tradujo al inglés y...
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Syllabi of Lowland South American anthropology courses Here you can consult syllabi of anthropology courses on Lowland South America (mostly Amazonia) kindly volunteered by several SALSA Members. A number of these syllabi are related to the Conversations in the Lobby 2017, organized by Carlos David Londoño...
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Mike Cepek's book Life in Oil recognized in the 2019 PROSE awards SALSA extends warm congratulations to long-time member Mike Cepek, whose book on the Cofán people was selected as a finalist of the 2019 PROSE Awards, honoring scholarly works published in 2018. Revealing how the key fuel of...
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Life in Oil: Cofán Survival in the Petroleum Fields of Amazonia By Mike Cepek University of Texas Press, 2018 In Life in Oil, Mike Cepek reveals how the key fuel of the global era affects the communities where petroleum is extracted. This beautifully written ethnography describes how the Cofán people are surviving...
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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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2010 SALSA VI Sesquiannual Conference - San Antonio, TX The SALSA VI Sesquiannual Conference of the Society for the Anthropology of Lowland South America (SALSA) took place in San Antonio, Texas, June 14-17, 2010. The program organizer was Steven Rubenstein (University of Liverpool), and the conference...
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