The Americas - Research at the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology

Universidad de Magallanes (UMAG) and the Istituto de Ecología y Biodiversidad (IEB) Chile

Collaboration of researchers and students on "Ecotourism with a magnifying glass: A bio-cultural ethics approach to promote just and sustainable tourism" led by Prof. Eveline Dürr (LMU) and Prof. Riccardo Rozzi.

Further information about the project can be found here.

LMU Latin America Network

Partners of the Institute:

• Universidade Federal do Amazonas (UFAM) in Brasilien
  Ansprechpartnerin: Prof. Dr. Eveline Dürr
• Universidade Federal do Amazonas/ Manaus in Brasilien
  Ansprechpartner: Dr. Wolfgang Kapfhammer
• Universidad de Cuenca in Ecuador
  Ansprechpartner: PD Dr. Josef Drexler
• Universidas del Cauca in Kolumbien
  Ansprechpartner: PD Dr. Josef Drexler
• Universidad de La Habana in Kuba
  Ansprechpartner: Prof. Dr. Magnus Treiber
• Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropologia Social in Mexiko
  Ansprechpartnerin: Prof. Dr. Eveline Dürr
• Further interdisciplinary cooperations can be found here.

Further information about the LMU Latin America network can be found here.

LMU Exchange Partner in North America

• Université Laval in Kanada
• University of British Columbia in Kanada

Museum Fünf Kontinente Munich

Exhibition: Networked, entangled, interwoven. Attractions from the Southern Abya Yala.
Further information about the exhibition can be found here (German).

Yanomami

Visit of the Yanomami speaker Davi Kopenawe at our institute:
You can find more information in German here.

Visit of the president of the indigenous NGO HUTUKARA Armindo Goes Melo and the president of the Brazilian Indigenous Missionary Council CIMI Dom Roque Paloschi to our Institute.
You can find more information in German here.

Manaus

Interactive Seminar Munich - Manaus: „‘Favela Amazonia?‘ Insights into Current Living Worlds in the Amazon"
You can find more information in German here.

In addition, interlocutors of the Sateré-Mawé from the Lower Amazon (Terra Indígena Andirá-Marau) were included.