Karen Shiratori
Biography
Karen Shiratori is an anthropologist and member of ECO Project. She holds a PhD in Social Anthropology from the National Museum of Rio de Janeiro and is a researcher at the Center for Amerindian Studies (CEstA-USP) and at the Mixed Research Unit "Patrimoines locaux, environnement & globalisation" (PALOC-IRD). Her areas of specialization are Indigenous ethnology with a focus on shamanism, political organization and traditional knowledge about agrobiodiversity. She works with Arawá and Tupi Kagwahiva language-speaking peoples, in the south of the Amazon, Brazil. She also researches public policy and territorial rights of Indigenous peoples in isolation. She organized and was one of the authors of the book Vozes vegetais: diversidade, resistências e histórias da floresta (Editora UBU, 2021). She was awarded an EMKP- British Museum grant in 2022.
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Latest Publications
Article in Scientific journal
Rocha Cangussu Alves, Daniel; Perez, Wlliam; Pereira Furquim, Laura; Shiratori, Karen; Carvalho, Fernanda Antunes; Drumond, Maria Auxiliadora (2023), "Ecología del deseo: Árboles atractivos y los pueblos indígenas en aislamiento en la Amazonía", Revista Habitus - Revista do Instituto Goiano de Pré-História e Antropologia, -, -, -
Book Chapter
Shiratori, Karen; Rocha Cangussu Alves, Daniel (2023), Povo isolado no sul do Amazonas se refugia em áreas oficiais de (des)proteção federal, in - (org.), Povos Indígenas no Brasil 2017-2022. São Paulo: Instituto Socioambiental, -
Book Chapter
Taddei, Renzo; Shiratori, Karen; Bulamah, Rodrigo (2022), Decolonizing the Anthropocene, in Callan, Hilary; Coleman, Simon (org.), The International Encyclopedia of Anthropology. 1ed.. London: Wiley, 1-12
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