University degrees, diplomas and academic public assessments

2013 - Ph.D., Weaving a New Basket: Indigenous Networks at the Margins of Development, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

1993 - Master's, Identity Between Ideology and Cognition: Style Elaborations and Cultural Interactions in North West Amazonia, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

1991 - Laurea, Classificazioni concettuali, linguistiche e forme d'uso della foresta tropicale da parte delle popolazioni indigene dell'America Meridionales, Università di Roma La Sapienza

Field of specialisation

Socio-cultural anthropology; ethnography and ethnohistory of Amazonia; practical activity and embodied knowledge; indigenous educational politics, educational philosophy and modes of knowing; shamanism and power, and notions of health and illness; indigen

Other fields

Participatory research action; Fairtrade.