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Karen Shiratori

Karen Shiratori is an Americanist anthropologist specializing in issues related to Indigenous peoples, biodiversity, environmental conflicts, and territorial rights. She works in the Brazilian, Peruvian, and Ecuadorian Amazon. Currently, she is a postdoctoral researcher on the ERC-ECO project, based at the University of Coimbra, and an associate researcher at the Amerindian Studies Center (São Paulo, Brazil), the joint research unit “Local Heritage, Environment, and Globalization” (Paris, France), and the Research Group on Indigenous and Afro-American Cultures (Barcelona, Spain). She is co-editor and one of the authors of the book Voices of the Plants: Diversity, Resistance, and Forest Histories (2021), translated into French in 2024. She received funding from the Endangered Material Knowledge Programme - British Museum in 2022.

Update: 30 October 2024

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Has participated in

Nukuri kahtiro turi: the plant world

Talk with João Paulo Lima Barreto and Karen Shiratori

Culturnautes 2024

The CCCB’s summer camp