Luis Garcia Falcon Florida International University Winner of the Norm and Sibby Whitten Research Fund 2023-2024 Napo Gold Rush: Perceptions and Responses to Mining in the Ecuadorian Amazon Since 2017, Ecuador has had three consecutive center-right governments who have continued to promote Ecuador's extractive industries as the future of...
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Felix Uhl Philipp University Marburg Winner of the Norm and Sibby Whitten Research Fund 2023-2024 Shaping Worlds through Music: Huni Kuin Music as the Making of Modernities and Belongings My PhD project focuses on how Brazilian Huni Kuin of the Jordão and Tarauacá rivers use music to shape an...
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Lana Gabriela Guimarães Melo Universidade Federal do Pará Winner of the Norm and Sibby Whitten Research Fund 2023-2024 For a present past: archaeology as school content in indigenous basic education In this project, I propose to carry out a bibliographical survey of academic research in archaeology, anthropology and history...
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Carolina Rodriguez Alzza Winner of the Norm and Sibby Whitten Research Fund 2022-2023 Iskonawa verbal arts: language and performance in a context of language revitalization This project aims to examine the genres of Iskonawa verbal arts, performance, and linguistic features in the Peruvian Amazon. From a discourse-centered approach,...
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Alexandra Reichert Winner of the Norm and Sibby Whitten Research Fund 2022-2023 Indigeneity and Interculturalidad: Generating Indigenous Knowledge Exchange to Improve Birth Care in Kichwa and Waorani Communities This project will investigate understandings and practices about birth in two distinct Indigenous groups in the Ecuadorian Amazon, the Kichwa...
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Alcineis Acate Peres Winner of the Norm and Sibby Whitten Research Fund 2022-2023 Indigenous practices and knowledge in the Amazon triple frontier: The Kokama sociocultural expression at the Guanabara community school II The initial objective of this project is to investigate, through practices and knowledge, sociocultural expressions of...
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