CENTRE NEWS
News for 2011-12:
Members of staff and PhD students affiliated with CAS have organized a Reading Group for the Candlemas Semester. The Group will meet on fridays from 1-2 in the CAS Library.
NEW APPOINTMENT: Dr Sabine Hyland has been appointed by the University to a Readership in Social Anthropology and Andean Studies. Dr Hyland specializes in the study of Historical Anthropology in the Andes. Her interests include: mission history; colonialism; writing systems; graphic pluralism; Andean ethnopoetics; and Inka ethnohistory. She is the author of numerous published works, including Gods of the Andes (Penn State, 2011), The Quito Manuscript (Yale 2007), and The Jesuit and the Incas (Michigan 2003). Dr Hyland will be taking up her post in January 2013.
We are happy to congratulate CAS members Moisés Lino e Silva and Veronica Groke on their successful Vivas this semester.
Tristan Platt has published an article in Bolivia on the colonial history of the TIPNIS road between the Amazon and the Andes, which at present is dividing the country into opposed camps. Find article and further information here.
Mark Harris has won honourable mention from the Warren Dean Memorial Prize in Brazilian History for his book, Rebellion on the Amazon: The Cabanagem, Race, and Popular Culture in the North of Brazil, 1798-1840. Cambridge University Press 2010.
CAS PhD student updates:
Laura Obermuller has received funding for fieldwork in Guyana from the Russell Trust, Royal Geographical Society and UK Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining.
Pablo Garcia, and Andreza De Souza Santos have been granted Russell Trust Awards. Pablo's research is based in the Peruvian highlands near Cuzco. Andreza's research is based in the city of Sao Paulo, Brazil.
Adom Philogene Heron is beginning a project on ideas of fatherhood in the Caribbean; look for his blog, fathermen, here.
Carolina Borda won a Wenner-Gren Scholarship for her PhD project on rural incest and mental illness in Chuquisaca, Bolivia.
Kinga Tomczyk has received a Gibson-Sykora scholarship from the University of St Andrews for her PhD project on pishtacos, fat-extractors of the Neo-Colonial Andes.
News for Martinmas 2011-12:
An important new CAS volume, The Archaeological Encounter. Anthropological Perspectives, edited by Paolo Fortis and Istvan Praet, is now available for purchase (£25).
CAS PhD student, Laura Obermuller, took part in the COP17 climate change talks in Durban in November 2011. Look out for her report here.
CAS welcomed Visiting Fellow Nadia Farage! (Professor, UNICAMP) who stayed with us for Michaelmas term 2011.
2010-11:
During October 2010, St Andrews hosted the Lisbon - Rio - St Andrews Social Sciences Trilateral (Mon 4th Oct - Wed 6th Oct).
2009-10:
CAS welcomed George Mentore as Visiting Fellow for the Michaelmas term 2010. A volume of his lectures has been published as part of the CAS Publications Series No 32.
Recent Graduates of the Centre
Moises Lino e Silva (2012)
Veronika Groke (2012)
Shelene Gomes (2011)
Juan Pablo Sarmiento (2011)
For further information, please contact:
Centre for Amerindian, Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Department of Social Anthropology
School of Philosophical, Anthropological & Film Studies
University of St Andrews
71 North Street
St Andrews, Fife
KY16 9AL Scotland, UK
Email: amerindian@st-andrews.ac.uk
Phone: +44 (0)1334 462986/2977
