Seeing, speaking and acting in Amazonian worlds. New takes on animism and perspectivism

Social anthropologist, Honorary Director of Research, EREA-LESC, CNRS, Paris, France . Former Head of the Research and Teaching Department at the Musée du Quai Branly in Paris (2005–2013) . One of the major contributors to the conceptualization of the symbolic economy of alterity within anthropological studies of Amazonia . Her main work explored how the Achuar perceive and inhabit history, sociality, understandings of psychic processes and knowledge, experiences of selfhood, and cosmologies . Her research interests also include kinship, cultural change and the historiography of the Aents Chicham (Jívaroan) language group .

E-mail: anchumir@gmail .com