Promoting ethical and sound research
on issues related to lowland South America,
its peoples, and its environments.
Pat Lyon, Beth Conklin, and Jeffrey Ehrenreich are planning a follow-up to the edited volume Native South Americans: Ethnology of the Least Known Continent. If you are interested in contributing, please see the volume invitation.
The Ken Kensinger Memorial Web Page may now be viewed on our website.
The Society for the Anthropology of Lowland South America mourns the passing of Kenneth M. Kensinger. Author of How Real People Ought to Live and editor of Marriage Practices in Lowland South America, Ken was an inspiration to many of us. He will be greatly missed.
We are pleased to announce the election of SALSA's newest board members. Carlos D. Londoño Sulkin (University of Regina) and Marcela Coelho de Souza (Universidade de Brasília) will be joining SALSA's board of directors. Many thanks to our outgoing board members, William Fisher and Suzanne Oakdale, for their volunteer work in SALSA.
We also announce the election of Jonathan D. Hill (Southern Illinois University - Carbondale) as president-elect. Dr. Hill's term as president-elect will last from 2011 to 2014 and he will be president from 2014 to 2017.