Centre for Teaching and Research in Amerindian Ethnology
Projects
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![Objects and life-cycle rituals in the Northwest Amazon and Central Brazil: Crossbreeding fieldwork, museum studies and the history of anthropology]()
2025-2028Objects and life-cycle rituals in the Northwest Amazon and Central Brazil: Crossbreeding fieldwork, museum studies and the history of anthropologyAlthough 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 affinity-based relationships overshadow those focused on descent relations (either between humans or with ... -
![Dik@ré: dictionnaire numérique et participatif yurakaré]()
2023-2025Dik@ré: dictionnaire numérique et participatif yurakaréLe 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 l’Éducation en Bolivie. Il a pour contexte un groupe amazonien qui, d’un côté, abandonne sa langue pour ... -
![Entangling Indigenous Knowledges in Universities]()
2024-2027Entangling Indigenous Knowledges in UniversitiesIndigenous 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 academic expertise. Universities and academia are critically important in developing knowledge, education, ... -
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2020-2024RITMO2Le 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, histoire, linguistique, iconographie, épigraphie, cognition) sur les schèmes culturels et les modalités ... -
![AMAZ: Socio-Spatial Configurations, Political Issues, and Ontological Debates in the Amazon]()
AMAZ: Socio-Spatial Configurations, Political Issues, and Ontological Debates in the AmazonDuring 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 same organizations are also becoming principal actors in hundreds of “environmental” conflicts that ... -
![APOCAMO 2: Contemporary Political Anthropology in Occidental Amazonia]()
2016-2019APOCAMO 2: Contemporary Political Anthropology in Occidental AmazoniaThis 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. Since the last three decades at the very least, the indigenous societies of the Amazon have become ... -
![AMRT : Alfred Métraux : A Transatlanic Reappraisal]()
2013-2015AMRT : Alfred Métraux : A Transatlanic ReappraisalTo 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 century Americanist studies, but also to find a second wind for some of the research topics that were ... -
![Sawa]()
SawaIndigenous 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 people of Guyana. The project also proposes a reflection on restitution practices and their impact on the ... -
![Prediction]()
PredictionPrediction 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 duration of transitional periods, measured by the succession of generations in Mayan societies through ... -
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GERMGerm : 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 of the social sciences (archeology, ethnology, anthropology, epigraphy, ethnohistory, linguistics) ... -
![Ritmo]()
2015-2018RitmoCreating, 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 Mesoamerican societies through a comparative and interdisciplinary perspective (incorporating ... -
![Fabriq'am]()
2013-2016Fabriq'amThe 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 resulting transformations (regimes of temporality, the transmission of knowledge, visibility, ...
Seminars
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![EREA seminar]()
EREA seminar
The EREA (Enseignement et recherche en ethnologie amérindienne) seminar is a flexible discussion space open to the public that aims to stimulate exchanges between Centre researchers, University of Paris Nanterre Department of Anthropology, and invitees from elsewhere. It serves as both a focal point for reflection on ongoing Americanist research and as a platform for doctoral students, ... -
![Séminaire d’anthropologie américaniste]()
Séminaire d’anthropologie américaniste
Le Séminaire d’anthropologie américaniste (SAA) propose une réflexion sur les débats contemporains de l’anthropologie américaniste, en croisant les perspectives de l’histoire, de la politique, de la linguistique ou de l’ethnomusicologie. Alternant des aires géographiques et des contextes culturels diversifiés, il ouvre un espace de discussion entre enseignants-chercheurs, chercheurs et étudiants ...
