James Andrew Whitaker

James Andrew Whitaker is an assistant professor of anthropology at the University of Southern Mississippi. He is also an honorary research fellow at the University of St Andrews. His research focuses on historical anthropology, historical ecology, and ontologies in lowland South America. He has worked with Makushi and Akawaio people in Guyana. He is the author of The Shamanism of Eco-Tourism: History and Ontology among the Makushi in Guyana. Whitaker has also been published in Anthropology & Medicine, Ethnos, Folklore, Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology, Religion and Society, Social Anthropology, Tipití, and elsewhere.
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Indigenous Alliance Making

Indigenous Alliance Making

Histories of Agency in Colonial Lowland South America

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