Josephine Mullen St Andrews University Winner of the Norm and Sibby Whitten Research Fund 2023-2024 Changing Paradigms of Existential Experience Among the Eastern Tukano in the Colombian Vaupes This research aims to explore the relationship between death and existential experience among Eastern Tukano language groups who live along the...
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Alexandre Aniceto de Souza Universidade Federal do Amazonas-UFAM Winner of the Norm and Sibby Whitten Research Fund 2023-2024 Waiwai komo yîhcamnopura natu cehtoponhîrî komo krapa waiwî poko Bow and Arrow: Continuity and Waiwai Transformations The research site is in the Trombetas-Mapuera indigenous land in the Jatapauzinho community. I will offer...
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Aline Oliveira Universidade de Coimbra Winner of the Norm and Sibby Whitten Research Fund 2023-2024 Amerindian Epistemologies: Indigenizing thought through Terena scientific production This project investigates the production of scientific knowledge by the Terena in the Gleba Iriri Novo Indigenous Land, exploring the journeys they make between villages and...
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Marco Ramírez Colombier Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú Winner of the Norm and Sibby Whitten Research Fund 2022-2023 Migration, construction of place and territoriality from the Kukama perspective. A cross-border study Peru-Colombia-Brazil The research will bring together the perspectives of the Kukama (Tupi-Guarani) people on their link to the...
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Elena Stübinger-Janas Universidad Nacional de Colombia - Amazonia Campus Winner of the Norm and Sibby Whitten Research Fund 2022-2023 "Welcome to the Amazon!" - Effects of English in a multilingual context in the southern Colombian Amazonian Trapezium Puerto Nariño in the southern Colombian Amazon is an area of intense...
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Austin Howard Florida State University Winner of the Norm and Sibby Whitten Research Fund 2023-2024 Exploring Inter-Ethnic Marriage Dynamics: A Study of Family Foundations and ‘ethnic’ entities in Iquitos, Peru My project will investigate the union and diversity of culture and how various Amazonian peoples perceive themselves and others....
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