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Comment by Ricardo Samuel Monteiro on January 12, 2010 at 7:30pm

Hi Luana,

Brazilian anthropologist Aparecida Vilaça has produced some interesting views on religious conversion among the Wari´ that may be useful to you. If your focus is on cosmology in context of transformation, articles written by Bruce Albert will be really interesting to you. I´ll name one that is perhaps the flagship essay about the work that Albert has been developing with the Yanomami, through the voice of Davi Kopenawa: O ouro canibal e a queda do céu: Uma crítica xamânica da ecomia política da natureza (Yanomami); or it´s french version - L'Or cannibale et la chute du ciel: une critique chamanique de l'economie politique de la nature.

Kind regards.

Comment by Ranjan Lekhy on January 10, 2010 at 12:53pm

Hi Stacy and Luana! I am not Amazonian student but I have great interest on Amazonian indigenous. I am sure that you have read the book "Amazonia: Territorial Struggles on Perrinial Frontiers" by Paul E Little. He is a young Prof. at the University of Brasila. By the way, thanks, Luana, I downloaded the article, it is quite helpful to me even when I am studing among the Tharus in Nepal.

Comment by Ranjan Lekhy on January 10, 2010 at 12:34pm

Anyone here, who is doing political ecology in Amazonia??

Comment by Stacy A A Hope on December 4, 2009 at 3:05am

It seems that there are quite of few cross-sections with the focus of research. I am seeing a relationship between tradition and conservation, tradition and the nation-state, and economic attachments and the transnational. I will start a forum for discussion with hopes that there is SOME discussion. The group has been quite stagnant, and I think it would be a good change of pace to have some Amazonian action afoot. Does anyone agree?

Comment by John-Ben Soileau on September 11, 2009 at 8:01pm

Greetings. I'm in the process of writing a proposal to do research among the Ka'apor, on their reserve in northeastern Brazil. I am interested in the effects of conservation efforts on their cultural traditions, specifically the use of bird plumage for ceremonial events.

Comment by Fabiane Vinente dos Santos on September 11, 2009 at 7:45pm

I'm working with the koripako/baniwa people in Brazilian Northwest Amazonia, exploring the relationship among the brazilian army's members and the young indigenous, mainly the indigenous who is in the army.

Comment by Emily Caruso on July 23, 2009 at 9:57pm

Hi
I'm working with the Ashaninka in the Peruvian Selva Central along the Rio Ene. I have been carrying out PhD fieldwork on indigenous-state relationships, concepts of citizenship and conflicts over territory (particularly with regard to the Ashaninka Communal Reserve, a "co-managed" protected area in Selva Central). I would be happy to share with everyone! I now live in Rome but travel frequently back to Peru.

Comment by Stacy A A Hope on July 3, 2009 at 9:46pm

I work in lowland South America, amongst the Wapishiana/Wapixana of Brasil and Guyana. However, my main focus is on those living within Guyana and how they "fit" within the state--i.e. looking at how indigeneity and nationalism meet. Initially, I considered a very Amazonian approach, but found that by solely classify these peoples as Amazonian, I was doing an injustice to their own perspectives of how they saw themselves existing. Hence, my anthropology is one that is transnational, and takes into consideration Amazonian and Creole perspectives.

Comment by Jessica Chelekis on June 27, 2009 at 6:51pm

I work in the Brazilian Amazon, on Marajo Island, studying women who work in direct sales (e.g. selling Avon) and how/if this contributes to the household economy and any degree of economic "independence"

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