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Profile
| Academic position | Full Professor |
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| Research fields | African, American and Oceania Studies,General and Applied Linguistics, Typology, Non-European Languages |
| Keywords | Ethnobotanik, Amazonien, Ethnolinguistik, einheimische Literatur, Kultur- und Sozialanthropologie |
| Honours and awards | 2020: Award in Conservation and Sustainable Development, Fundación Alejandro Angel Escobar, Colombia 2015: Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Forschungpreis, Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung 2005: Bourse de séjour Legs Bernard Lelong, CNRS. Paris, Frankreich 1998: Premio nacional de antropologia (Nationale Auszeichnung in der Anthropologie), Kolumbien 1993: Premio nacional al rescate de la tradicion oral (Nationale Auszeichnung in der Rettung der mündlichen Überlieferung), Kolumbien 1987: Fubright Fellowship, USA |
Current contact address
| Country | Colombia |
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| City | Leticia, Amazonas |
| Institution | Universidad Nacional de Colombia |
| Institute | Campus Amazonia |
| Homepage | http://unal.edu.co/ |
Host during sponsorship
| Prof. Dr. Barbara Göbel | Ibero-Amerikanisches Institut, Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Berlin |
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| Prof. Dr. Susanne Klengel | ZI Lateinamerika-Institut - Literaturen und Kulturen Lateinamerikas, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin |
| Start of initial sponsorship | 01/03/2015 |
Program(s)
| 2014 | Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award Programme |
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Nominator's project description
| Professor Dr. Juan Alvaro Echeverri from the Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Amazonia Campus, Colombia Professor Echeverri is an international authority in the study of social anthropology with a cross-disciplinary focus on ethnolinguistics, literature, and natural sciences. He has made outstanding contributions to a theory of verbal and poetic genres in Amerindian languages. He also developed innovative studies on symbolic ecology combined with ethnobotanic research in order to understand how local people engage with their natural environment. In Germany, Professor Echeverri will conduct research on "Transamazonian knowledges between the local and the global: the materiality of ethnography, Amerindian literatures and memories". Professor Echeverri is hosted by Professor Susanne Klengel at Freie Universität Berlin and by Dr. Barbara Göbel at the Ibero-Amerikanisches Institut (Berlin) |
Publications (partial selection)
| 2023 | Echeverri, Juan Alvaro: Lenguaje es aliento: «aunque aprendas poco, se te abre el coco».. In: Forma y Función, 36, 2023, 1-20 |
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| 2023 | Echeverri, Juan Alvaro: Leticia indígena: construcción territorial indígena en la ciudad. In: Leticia indígena: construcción territorial indígena en la ciudad, 14, 2023, e101673 |
| 2022 | Echeverri, Juan Alvaro: La gente del centro del mundo: Curación de la historia en una sociedad amazónica. Editorial Universidad Nacional de Colombia, 2022 |
| 2022 | Echeverri, Juan Alvaro; Romero, Isabel Victoria: La lengua nonuya: historia y estado actual de su proceso de revitalización. In: Zajikova, Lenka, Lenguas indígenas de América Latina: Contextos, contactos, conflictos. Iberoamericana Vervuert, 2022. 175-188 |
| 2021 | Echeverri, Juan Alvaro: Documentación y recuperación de la lengua nonuya de la Amazonia colombiana. In: Visitas al patio, 15, 2021, 146-163 |
| 2016 | Echeverri, Juan Alvaro: La conjuración de la Madre: sobre la traducción de un texto de Anastasia Candre. In: Diálogo: An interdisciplinary journal published by the Center for Latino Research at DePaul University, 17, 2016, 47-60 |
| 2015 | Echeverri, Juan Alvaro: Cool Tobacco Breath: the uses and meanings of tobacco among the People of the Centre. In: Russell, Andrew; Rahman, Elizabeth, The Master Plant: Tobacco in Lowland South America. Bloomsbury Academic Publishing, 2015. 107-129 |
| 2015 | Echeverri, Juan Alvaro: Substances and Persons: on the Culinary Space of the People of the Centre. In: Tipití: Journal of The Society for the Anthropology of Lowland South America, 13, 2015, 91-104 |
| 2014 | Frank Seifart, Juan Alvaro Echeverri: Evidence for the identification of Carabayo, the language of an uncontacted people of the Colombian Amazon, as belonging to the Tikuna-Yurí linguistic family. In: PLoS ONE , 2014, e94814 |
| 2013 | Juan Alvaro Echeverri, Oscar Román-Jitdutjaaño: Ash salts and bodily affects: Witoto traditional environmental knowledge as sexual education. In: Environmental Research Letters, 2013, 015034 |
| 2011 | Juan Alvaro Echeverri: The Putumayo Indians and the Rubber Boom. In: Irish Journal of Anthropology, 2011, 13-18 |
| 2011 | Juan Alvaro Echeverri, Oscar Roman-Jitdutjaaño: Witoto ash salts from the Amazon. In: Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 2011, 492-502 |