OTHER NEWS
An Online conversation was held in June of 2012 through the Open Anthropology Cooperative Press website with Professor Joanna Overing entitled:
An Amazonian Question of Ironies and the Grotesque
the arrogance of cosmic deceit, and the humility of everyday life
http://openanthcoop.net/press/2012/06/20/an-amazonian-question-of-ironies-and-the-grotesque/
NEWS FROM PAST CAS STUDENTS
Dr. Javier Carrera Rubio (2005) holds the position of Profesor Asociado in the Department of Psychology and Anthropology at La Universidad de Extremadura (Cáceres, Spain). Javier recently got an article accepted for publication in the Venezuelan Journal Antropológica, the title of the article is: “Problemas de la poética Yanomami: ver, leer y escuchar las voces de un mito desde la vida cotidiana”.
In September Javier was appointed as "Investigador Colaborador Visitante" in the IVIC (Instituto Venezolano de Investigaciones Cientificas). He plans to work there during this academic year (2012-2013) in order to finish another article and give shape to a research project on Yanomami orality/discurse.
Dr. Giovanna Bacchiddu (2007) is currently teaching at Pontificia Universidad Catolica De Chile. She has published numerous articles on her research from her PhD here in CAS, the most recent of which was this year.
‘Doing Things Properly’: Religious Aspects in Everyday Sociality in Apiao, Chiloé. En L. Debevec and S. Skielke (eds). Ordinary Lives and Grand Schemes: An Anthropology of Everyday Religion. New York and Oxford: Berghahn.
She has also been working on her second project which entails research on kinship and international adoption. This project focuses on a specific episode of intercountry adoption where Chilean-born children have been adopted by Italian families. The themes of this project are ethnic and national identity, ideas of kinship ties and of motherhood on adoptees as well as adoptive parents, and biological parents.
Conrad Feather (2010) is working for Forest Peoples Programme, a UK based human rights organisation supporting indigenous peoples. www.forestpeoples.org
Dr. Shelene Gomes (2011) is currently affiliated with a university in Ethiopia and will be presenting a paper on her PhD research at this year’s 18th International Conference on Ethiopian Studies in Dire Dawa, Ethiopia.
Stacy Hope has been working as a consultant for 'Kenyans for Kenya.'
In June 2011 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.
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.
Margharita Margiotti is now a Teaching Fellow at the University of Bristol.
Conrad Feather is working for the Forest People's Programme.
Moises Lino e Silva has been offered a visiting fellowship at Harvard.
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>
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
