Artionka Capiberibe
Artionka Capiberibe is Professor at the Department of Anthropology of Unicamp (University of Campinas), in São Paulo-Brazil. Since 1996, she has been working with the Palikur Amerindian people, who live in the Amazon region of the Brazil/French Guiana border. Her research is mainly devoted to two different themes: Christianity among indigenous peoples and the impact of economic projects on the lives of indigenous peoples in Brazil.
The project
Title: Visiting professor at the Department of Anthropology at the University of Paris Nanterre, in charge of the seminar "Debates on the theme of land" linked to her project "Politics as war: the ideology of the attack on indigenous territorial rights in Brazil".
Keywords: ethnography of indigenous peoples; social transformations; religious conversion; Brazilian state policies; capitalist economic exploitation projects ; indigenous political action
Selected publications
- CAPIBERIBE, Artionka (in press/ sous presse). “Indigenous Evangelicals, Adventists and Catholics: Intersections of Christianity and Shamanism on the Brazil/French Guiana Amazonian Border”. In: CAPREDON, Élise; CERIANI CERNADAS, Cesar and OPAS, Minna (Org.) Indigenous Churches: Anthropology of Christianity in Lowland South America. London / New York / Shanghai: Palgrave Macmillan.
- CAPIBERIBE, Artionka (2022). « Politics as War: The Ideology of the Attack on Indigenous Territorial Rights ». In. Difficulties in the Enforcement of Territorial Rights, Brazil, Tipití: Journal of the Society for the Anthropology of Lowland South America: Vol. 18: Iss. 1, Article 9, 129-133.
Disponible sur : https://digitalcommons.trinity.edu/tipiti/vol18/iss1/9 - CAPIBERIBE, Artionka (2021). « Reaching Souls, Liberating Lands: Cross-cultural Evangelical Missions and Bolsonaro’s Government. Braz. political sci. rev., v. 15, n. 2, e0003. Disponible sur : https://doi.org/10.1590/1981-3821202100020002
- BONILLA, Oiara; CAPIBERIBE, Artionka (2021). « From flocking for rights to the politics of death: indigenous struggle and indigenous policy in Brazil (1980-2020) ». Portuguese Studies, v. 37, n. 1, 2021. Disponible sur : http://dx.doi.org/10.5699/portstudies.37.1.0102
- CAPIBERIBE, Artionka (2018). « Crisis at the Border: Amazonian Relations with Spirits and Others ». In: OSTLING, Michael (org.), Fairies, Demons, and Nature Spirits: “Small Gods” at the Margins of Christendom. London / New York / Shanghai: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018, p. 150-172.
