Amerindianist Teaching Staff
Dr Huon Wardle
Director of CAS, Lecturer in Social Anthropology
Jamaica, Caribbean, Cosmopolitanism, Adventure, Caribbean religious forms.
Reader in Social Anthropology and Andean Studies
Andes. Spanish chroniclers, graphic pluralism, ethnopoetics, khipu literacy.
Dr Mark Harris
Reader in Social Anthropology.
Lower Amazonia, Pará, Brazil. Embodiment, creativity, history.
Prof Tristan Platt
Professor in Anthropology and History.
Andes, Bolivia, Quechua. History, orality and literacy, archives and interpretation, mining and metallurgy.
Prof Peter Gow
Professor of Social Anthropology
Upper Amazonia, Piro, Perú. Myth and history.
Dr Emilia Ferraro
ef21@st-andrews.ac.uk
Director, Sustainable Development Programme
School of Geography and Geoscience
Ecuador. Economic anthropology, gender, aesthetics of money.
Dr Roddy Brett
rlb3@st-andrews.ac.uk
Lecturer in School of International Relations
Latin America, Guatamala. Socio-political Transformation, Legal Systems, Armed Conflict, War and Authoritarian Regimes.
Prof Joanna Overing
Emeritus Professor in Social Anthropology
Piaroa, Amazonia. Emotions, egalitarianism, creativity.
Dr Juan Pablo Sarmiento Barletti
jps5@st-andrews.ac.uk
Postdoctoral Teacher in Social Anthropology and Amerindian Studies
Peru, Amazonia. Violence and Memory, Sociality and Sustainable Development.
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
