Whitten Research Fund Winners of the Norm and Sibby Whitten Research Fund 2024-2025 Happy New Year Salserxs! I am so pleased begin the year sharing with you (below) the winners of the 2024-25 Norm & Sibby Whitten Research Award. Many thanks to the Whitten Research Award Selection Committee Paul...
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Norm and Sibby Whitten Research Fund 2024-2025 Application deadline: 30 november 2024 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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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 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 places they inhabit in...
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