indigenous people
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Who is who in CASAS? Igor de Sousa
Igor is a PhD in Sociology from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (2022), Master’s in Social Anthropology from the Federal University of Santa Catarina (2016), and Bachelor’s in Social Sciences from the State University of Maranhão (2013). He has experience in anthropology and sociology, with an emphasis on: ruralities, traditional peoples and…
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The Making of an Indigenous Community and the Limits of Community: Class Differentiation and Social Ties in Southern Chile
Carlos Bolomey Córdova, CASAS’ member, has published an article in Rural Sociology. Abstract: This article seeks to challenge essentialist comprehensions of rural Indigenous communities through examining one particular Mapuche community who were the recipients of a land subsidy. Mapuche people are the largest Indigenous group in Chile. Since the 1990s, the Chilean government, responding to…
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Resisting in the mountains in Mexico: using territory and self-determination to resist COVID-19
Mexico is a diverse country and as such, each region is coping with COVID19 in different ways with the resources they have. Today, I will describe the coping mechanisms of my hometown, Tamazulapam Mixe, a little indigenous community located in the mountains of “Sierra Norte” in Oaxaca, Mexico. Many people know us as ‘the never…