Pirjo Kristiina Virtanen Organizer XV SALSA Biennial Conference - Helsinki, 4-6 August 2025 Pirjo Kristiina Virtanen received her doctorate in Latin American studies from the University of Helsinki in 2007. She has carried out fieldwork in southwestern Amazonia, especially with the Arawak-speaking Manchineri and Apurinã in the Purus...
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XV SALSA Biennial Conference University of Helsinki August 4-6, 2025 Dear Salserxs, I and the SALSA board are pleased to announce that the XV SALSA Biennial Conference 2025 will take place at the University of Helsinki, on August 4-6, 2025, with a pre-conference Welcome on August 3. Drs. Pirjo Kristiina Virtanen,...
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Norm and Sibby Whitten Research Fund 2022-2023 Application deadline: November 30, 2022 The Norm and Sibby Whitten Research Fund supports pre-project travel grants for master and doctoral students in the early formulation of their field research. This Grant-in-Aid is to initiate contact and collaborative working relationships with...
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Norm and Sibby Whitten Research Fund 2021-2022 Application deadline: December 10, 2021 (see guidelines in PDF format) The Norm and Sibby Whitten Research Fund 2022 supports pre-project travel grants for full-time graduate students in the early stages of formulating their dissertation research proposal. This Grant-in-Aid is to initiate...
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Results of the SALSA 2020 Elections for the Board of Directors 8 May 2020 The Society for the Anthropology of Lowland South America (SALSA) held elections in April and May of 2020. Pirjo Kristiina Virtanen (head of Indigenous Studies program at the University of Helsinki, Finland) and Maria...
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Norm and Sibby Whitten Research Fund 2020-2021 Application deadline: November 15, 2020 (see guidelines in PDF format) The Norm and Sibby Whitten Research Fund 2020-2021 supports pre-project travel grants for full- time graduate students in the early stages of formulating their dissertation research proposal. This Grant-in-Aid is to...
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