Editing Eden: A Reconsideration of Identity, Politics, and Place in Amazonia

Contributors

Contributors Margarita Chaves is a researcher and coordinator of the Social Anthropology Group at the Instituto Colombiano de Anthropología e Historia (icanh). She studied anthropology at the Universidad Nacional de Colombia and received her doctorate at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign. She has been editor of the Revista Colombiana deAntropología and a visiting professor at various anthropology and cultural studies programs in Colombia. Her research focuses on indigenous and peasant social and political dynamics in colonization zones of the Colombian Amazon. Her work has appeared in various edited volumes and academic journals; her most recent publication is Lamulticulturalidadestatalizada:Indígenas,afrodescendientesyformaciones regionales de estado en Colombia y Latinoamérica (StateSponsored Multiculturalism: Indigenous Peoples, Afro-descendants, and Regional State Formations in Colombia and Latin America, icanh, 2009). She is currently engaged in research on consumerism, markets, and cultural heritage in the context of expanding cultural industries in Colombia. 262 contributors Beth A. Conklin earned her doctorate in 1989 from the University of California at San Francisco and Berkeley. She is a cultural and medical anthropologist at Vanderbilt University specializing in the ethnography of indigenous peoples of lowland South America (Amazonia). Her research focuses on the anthropology of the body, religion and ritual, health and healing, death and mourning, the politics of indigenous rights, and ecology, environmentalism, and cultural and religious responses to climate change. Her publications include Consuming Grief:CompassionateCannibalisminanAmazonianSociety (University of Texas Press, 2001), “Body Paint, Feathers, and vcrs: Aesthetics and Authenticity in Amazonian Activism,” “The Shifting Middle Ground: Brazilian Indians and Eco-Politics” (with Laura Graham), “Ski Masks, Nose Rings, Veils and Feathers: Body Arts on the Front Lines of Identity Politics,” “Shamans versus Pirates in the Amazonian Treasure Box,” and “Environmentalism, Global Community, and the New Indigenism.” FrankHutchins is an associate professor of anthropology at Bellarmine University. His dissertation research at the University of Wisconsin– Madison focused on cultural change in the Upper Amazon of Ecuador, particularly on issues of ecotourism and development. He is the director of the University of Wisconsin–Madison Summer Field School for the Study of Language, Culture and Community Health in Ecuador. His recent research looks at ritual fighting associated with the Inti Raymi festival in the northern Andes. Jean E. Jackson is a professor of anthropology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She received her master’s and doctoral degrees from Stanford University. Her 1983 book, The Fish People: Linguistic Exogamy and Social Identity in Northwest Amazonia (Cambridge University Press, 1983), examined the Tukanoan cultural complex of the Vaupés region. She has published numerous articles on the Vaupés peoples and on Colombia’s indigenous movement. She and Kay Warren coedited IndigenousMovements,Self-Representation,and theStateinLatinAmerica (University of Texas Press, 2002). Jackson also 263 contributors conducted ethnographic research in a rehabilitation hospital, which resulted in several published essays and a book, “CampPain”:Talking with Chronic Pain Patients (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2002). María Clemencia Ramírez is a research associate and the former director of the Colombian Institute of Anthropology and History. She attended the Universidad de los Andes and the National University in Colombia, earning a bachelor’s degree in anthropology and a master’s degree in history. She holds a doctorate in social anthropology from Harvard University and was the 2004–2005 Santo Domingo Visiting Scholar at Harvard’s David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies. She has taught in Colombia at the Universidad de los Andes and the National University. Her work explores the intersections of violence and identity through the lens of public policy and state-citizen relations, focusing on the Amazon region of Colombia, specifically the department of Putumayo, where the implementation of Plan Colombia began in 2000. The impact of Plan Colombia on the small coca growers of Putumayo has become a main focus of her research. She is the author of BetweentheGuerrillasandtheState:TheCocalero Movement, Citizenship and Identity in the Colombian Amazon (forthcoming from Duke University Press), a revised and updated Englishlanguage version of EntreelEstadoylaGuerrilla:Identidadyciudadanía enelmovimientodeloscampesinoscocalerosdelPutumayo (2001). She is also the author of FronteraFluidaentreAndes,PiedemonteySelva:El casodelValledeSibundoy,SiglosXVI–XVIII (1996) and coauthor of Atlas Cultural de la Amazonia Colombiana: La construcción del territorio en el siglo XIX (1998) and she has recently written several book chapters and journal articles on the politics of global security and the war on drugs in Colombia. Alcida Rita Ramos is a professor of anthropology at the University of Bras...