I am an anthropologist at the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology of the LMU, Munich, also teaching for the Rachel Carson Center. Regionally I focus on Amazonia, theoretically I am interested in the interfaces of anthropology and the environmental humanities. Since 1998 I collaborate with the Sateré-Mawé, an Indigenous community on the Lower Amazon in Brazil. Work in Brazil has brought me in contact with the Núcleo de Estudos da Amazônia Indígena (NEAI) of the postgraduate program of social anthropology at the Federal University of Amazonas (UFAM) in Manaus. I regularly give seminars and talks in Manaus, every summer semester in Munich we do a seminar on Amazonian ethnology together with Indigenous colleagues via video call. I have published widely on the Sateré-Mawé, specifically on the entanglement of traditional cosmology and religious (evangelicalism), governamental (social benefits) and economic (Fair Trade) modernity.
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