Luis Vargas Helm

Luis Vargas Helm is a doctoral student in anthropology at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, in cotutelle with the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú (Lima). He is attached to the Laboratoire d'Anthropologie Sociale of the Collège de France. Since 2019, he has been conducting an ethnographic survey among the Arakmbut, an indigenous people living in Peru's southeastern Amazon who are actively involved in alluvial gold mining.

The project

Title: Interethnic relations, social organization and value on an extractive front in the Peruvian Amazon