Projets

Although it is well known that South American Lowlands Indigenous peoples have a remarkably sophisticated material life (Santos Granero 2009; Miller 2019), few recent studies have explicitly focused on the subject. Likewise, despite a surge in research volume, descriptions emphasizing ...

Le projet dik@ré se propose d’offrir une base de données lexicales numériques de la langue yurakaré, une langue isolée d’Amazonie bolivienne à l’Institut de langue et culture yurakaré (ILC-Y) antenne locale de l’Institut plurinational des langues et cultures (IPLC) rattaché au ministère de ...

Indigenous knowledges are crucial for coping with current global crises, such as climate change, loss of biocultural diversity and rise of xenophobic nationalisms. This pivotal historical moment requires multi-centred thinking and action, bringing together the multiplicity of Indigenous and ...

Le réseau IRN, soutenu par le CNRS, RITMO2 De la répétition à l’innovation en Mésoamérique : Approches interdisciplinaires de la transmission et du changement dans les sociétés passées et présentes s’attache à développer une réflexion interdisciplinaire (anthropologie-ethnologie, archéologie, ...

During the last three decades, indigenous Amazonian societies have begun to occupy an increasingly active role on the political stage. Their organizations have undeniably entered the national political arena, their members sometimes gaining high-representative positions at the state level. These ...

This Group of International Research (GDRI), created in 2012 and renewed in 2016, joins together several research centres and institutions from France, Peru, Colombia and Ecuador, all of which, independently or in concert, research political anthropology of the Amerindian movement in the Amazon. ...

To mark the fiftieth anniversary of his death, a group of anthropologists based in the countries where he was born (Switzerland), has worked (France, USA) or did fieldwork (Argentina, Bolivia) decided to not only pay tribute to the memory of Alfred Métraux (1902-1963), a leading figure of XXth ...

Indigenous Wayana- Apalaí knowledge – A new approach to restitution and its implications for forms of transmission The goal of this project is the empowerment and restitution to the Wayanas and Apalaís of sound, film, and photographic collections documenting the knowledge of these indigenous ...

Prediction is an interdisciplinary project (incorporating archaeology, ethnology, ethnohistory) on the change and collective decision-making in times of crisis during classic, colonial, and post-colonial periods in Mayan societies. The project endeavours to elucidate collective actions over the ...

Germ : Group for the Teaching and Research on Mayans and Mesoamerica The Germ (Groupe d’enseignement et de recherche sur les Mayas et la Mésoamérique) is a research group specialized in Mayan studies and Mesoamerica. It was founded with the aim of bringing together researchers from various fields ...

Creating, Destroying, Transforming in Mesoamerica: The Modalities of Ritual Actions and their Inscriptions in Time This International Research Group (GDRI) joins together European, Mexican, and American partners, who reflect on the temporal dimension of ritual activity in past and contemporary ...

The Fabric of Heritage: Memory, Knowledge, and Politics in Indigenous America Today This project elaborates a comparative reflection on the avatars of the exogenous notion of “cultural heritage” in Amerindian societies, the ways in which these societies take possession of their “heritage”, and the ...