Centre alumnus Stacy Hope has been working as a consultant for 'Kenyans for Kenya.'October 2011:
CAS welcomes Visiting Fellow Nadia Farage! (Professor, UNICAMP) who will be with staying with us for the rest of Michaelmas term.
September 2011:
Centre alumnus Stacy Hope has been working as a consultant for 'Kenyans for Kenya.'
In June the Centre received a visit from Centre alumnus George Stewart Macintosh (Mlitt 1971, PhD 1978. He has retired after a career teaching anthropology and undertaking mission work in, inter alia, Bolivia and Canada. He kindly donated a number of Quechua and other texts to our teaching collection.
June 2011: Successes for former and current students:
Giovanna Bacchidu will be starting a full time lecturing job at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile in Santiago.
Paolo Fortis' book manuscript (based on his PhD research with the Cuna) has been accepted by the University of Texas Press.
Former PhD student Margharita Margiotti is now a Teaching Fellow at the University of Bristol, while Conrad Feather is working for the Rainforest Foundation.
Current research student, Moises Lino e Silva, has been offered a visiting fellowship at Harvard.
May 2011: CAS has updated its Useful Links page.
CAS announces the publication of George Mentore's 'Abandoned People, Madness and the Untranslatable' in its occasional papers series (£10, available from CAS)
PROGRAMME OF EVENTS FOR 2010 - 2011:
A new series of events on 'The Riddle of Place in the Caribbean and Latin America' are currently happening in CAS - see our events page.
During October 2010, St Andrews hosted the Lisbon - Rio - St Andrews Social Sciences Trilateral (Mon 4th Oct - Wed 6th Oct). For details:
Two New Santander Scholarships have been awarded for tenure September 2010-August 2013 See Scholarships page.
A workshop on 'Indigeneity in West Atlantic Intersystems', coordinated by Huon Wardle and Stacy Hope, recently took place at the EASA conference in Maynooth, 24/08/2010.
A postgraduate workshop on "Bodies: Ethnographic Perspectives from South America" was held on 14th and 15th September 2009. Please contact Margherita Margiotti at <mm527@st-andrews.ac.uk> or Nádia Heusi at <nh41@st-andrews.ac.uk>
CÓDICE MURUA was acquired by Special Collections, University of St Andrews Library:
Galvin MS of Martin de Murúa, Historia y Genealogía Real de los Reyes Incas del Perú (1590).
Conrad Feather was awarded a grant by the Hans Rausing Endangered Languages Project for his work documenting Nahua mythology (Perú).
Cornelia Nell has been awarded a Travel Grant by the National University of Ireland for her fieldwork in the Macha chawpirana (Bolivia).
YouTube address for racist violence in Sucre (Bolivia): http://www.youtube.com/sucretino
Blogs about the Pando Massacre (Bolivia): http://wordpress.com/tag/pando-massacre/
New English-language Bolivian newsblog: <http://www.karaspita.wordpress.com>
NEW CAS OCCASIONAL PUBLICATION (31):
Tristan Platt, "The Weak and the Strong. Monetary Policies, Spheres of Exchange and Crises of Trust in 19th century Potosí (Bolivia). St Andrews (2008). FOR SALE.
ON SALE
FOR OTHER PUBLICATIONS AND BOOKS ON SALE, see PUBLICATIONS PAGES.