The Judicialization of Indigenous Territories in Brazil: Judicial Power and the Obstacles to Demarcation
Tipití: Journal of the Society for the Anthropology of Lowland South America
Category: Multilingual
Writing and Drawing: Knowledge of “Traditional Indigenous Midwives”
This paper aims to discuss the construction of the “traditional indigenous midwife” category in the context of public health policies on pregnancy, labor and childbirth care in Roraima, Brazil. Based on statements given by indigenous women and men …
Community Health Workers in Central-Southern Amazonia: An Ethnographic Account of the Munduruku People of Kwatá Laranjal Indigenous Land
We describe the range of different positions assumed by Community Health Workers (CHW) employed to work among the Mundurucu in order to analyze their emergence as new actors in the social field of indigenous health and the implications of CHW parti…
Health Agents on The Move: Yanomami Agency and The Struggle For Wellbeing
This paper examines the sanitary and sociopolitical impact of the work of a Yanomami Health Agent in the Upper Ocamo area of the Venezuelan Amazonas State, and its relationship with the national health system, and argues that these build up into an…
Gendered Geographies of Care: Women as Health Workers in an Indigenous Health Project in the Peruvian Amazon
This article examines how women as primary gatekeepers for well being became involved as health promoters in a local indigenous health care project in the Amazonian region of Madre de Dios, Peru. Here, I provide a case study of the processes and tr…
Indigenous Health Agents in Amazonia: Creative Intermediations and a Poiesis of Care
Tipití: Journal of the Society for the Anthropology of Lowland South America
Protected: Chamada: Dossiê “Laudos Antropológicos: questões teórico-metodológicas, éticas e de poder na América Latina hoje”
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Introduction
Agricultural issues are currently in the limelight. They appear on the agenda of many institutions and governments. All over the world they provoke protests and demonstrations on the part of producers and consumers – involving…
Death of Mary Douglas, an Obituary
I have had the privilege of collaborating with Mary Douglas in the framework of the International Commission for the Anthropology of Food (ICAF) since 1978, but our paths first crossed much earlier, in 1962 when she was a member of the Internati…
A la Mémoire d’Igor de Garine
De Ricardo Avila
C’est avec une profonde tristesse, que nous venons vous informer du décès, survenu ce 27 juin 2018, de notre cher ami et collègue, Igor de Garine.
Igor était amplement reconnu dans le domaine de l’anthropologie de l’…
Document d’orientation, base de l’appel à communication
Introduction
Les questions agricoles sont aujourd’hui revenues sur le devant de la scène. Elles sont inscrites à l’agenda de nombreuses institutions ou pays. Elles suscitent aussi de nombreuses luttes de paysans, peuples « indigènes », cit…
The myth of the golden past: Critical perspectives on the paleo diet
The paper examines the Paleo Diet as a form of primitivism. After describing its constituents, it moves on to assess the evolutionary assumptions surrounding it through the lens of evolutionary mismatch theory. Evolutionary assumptions include t…
Patrimonios alimentarios en América Latina: recursos locales, actores y globalización
Rebaï N., Bilhaut A.-G., de Suremain C.-E., Katz E., Paredes M., (eds.), 2021. Patrimonios alimentarios en América Latina: recursos locales, actores y globalización, Lima, IFEA/IRD, 268 p.
El libro que a continuación comentamos, Patrimonio…
Book review of Fabio Parasecoli’s Gastronativism
Gastronativism : Food, Identity, Politics, Fabio Parasecoli; ISBN: 978-0-231-20207-7, Columbia University Press, New York, 2022.
Released at an extremely timely moment, Fabio Parasecoli’s Gastronativism: Food, Identity, Politics undertake…
Action theatre to explain and debate food democracy injustice
Alternative food structures, despite their core sociocultural justice values, experience difficulties in attracting members from diverse backgrounds. This article attempts to gain insight into the reasons for this paradox by assessing the findin…
The Photograph as Archive, Reimagining the Archive, the Living Archive of Aboriginal Art
In 2008, an Indigenous Australian artist based in Melbourne – Maree Clarke (Mutti Mutti/ Wemba Wemba/Boonwurrung) – created a kangaroo-teeth necklace, revivifying an art and cultural practice for the first time in over a century. She was inspire…
Multisensory Ethnography Through Emplaced Augmented Reality
Incorporating moving and still images and audio within the text, I examine in this article how site-specific augmented reality (AR) can convey ethnographic research and forms of embodied knowledge through emplacing the audience and engaging thei…
Visualizing Data Shadow Donation
Within the context of datafication, participatory surveillance capitalism, and prospering rhetoric about scientific insight from big data exists the practice of data shadow donation. This relational activity refers to the digital gifting of pers…
Audio-visual-sensory Essays in Post-Digital Times
An introduction to the special issue, this article sets the stage for the essays that compose it. It addresses the transformations that have been taking place in the recent decades in the terrain of image-making, visual culture, visual technolog…
In Search of the Unknown
Creating our own image, whether it is in research or in art, is a constant conversation with the images already in our heads. In the case of refugees, these images are shaped by mediatised and politicised realities that obscure the capacity to s…
Presence and Absence in Mollusc Lifeworlds and Visual Essays
This article reconfigures and reflects on the author’s visual essay “MOLLusCS + mollUScs” (2019), which assembled narration on human-mollusc correspondences and a series of three black and white photos. With the aim to employ the trope of presen…
Crafting Essays on Life
Reflecting on the use of different tools within anthropological research and its outcomes, as well as positioning these tendencies within recent debates in the discipline, the article draws attention to the importance of form – the poetics of et…
Picturing the Group: Combining Photo-elicitation and Focus Group Methods
The aim of this paper is to address the potential of combining the focus group method with photo-elicitation in ethnographic research. The paper is based on my own experience with a photo-elicitation focus group (PEFG) consisting of five communi…
Combining Two Disciplines
While photography has a long history of being used by anthropologists, not much has been written of the use of anthropology by photographers. Based on my personal experiences of two distinct ethnographic fieldworks, I argue that these two practi…