Pirjo Kristiina Virtanen University of Helsinki Member-at-Large of the SALSA Board 2020 - 2024 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...
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Pirjo Kristiina Virtanen University of Helsinki Member-at-large candidate 2020 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 River region, Brazil....
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PANEL 01: Urban Imaginaries in Native Amazonia: Tales of Alterity, Power, and Defiance SALSA XII Sesquiannual Conference - Vienna, 2019 Organizers: Fernando Santos-Granero, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute Emanuele Fabiano, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú – PUCP, Peru Chairs: Fernando Santos-Granero, Emanuele Fabiano Discussant: Jonathan D. Hill, Southern Illinois University - Carbndale,...
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Conversations in the Lobby 2017: Teaching courses on the anthropology of peoples of lowland South America SALSA XI Sesquiannual Conference, Lima Organizer: Carlos D. Londoño Sulkin, University of Regina The Conversations in the Lobby event first appeared at the VIII Sesquiannual Conference of SALSA in Nashville, Tennessee, in...
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Creating Dialogues: Indigenous Perceptions and Changing Forms of Leadership in Amazonia Edited by Hanne Veber & Pirjo Kristiina Virtanen University Press of Colorado & Utah State University Press, 2017 Creating Dialogues discusses contemporary forms of leadership in a variety of Amazonian indigenous groups. Examining the creation of indigenous leaders...
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Indigenous Youth in Brazilian Amazonia: Changing Lived Worlds By Pirjo Kristiina Virtanen Palgrave Macmillan, 2012 Indigenous Youth in Brazilian Amazonia wonders about how do Amazonian native young people perceive, question, and negotiate the new kinds of social and cultural situations in which they find themselves? Virtanen looks at how...
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