CRACIA will reconvene for the spring, with approximately two meetings per month, Fridays 3-5pm EST / 8-10pm GMT. The first roundtable will take place Friday, January 29, 2021, 3:00 EST / 8:00 GMT: https://ucsc.zoom.us/j/93025634119?pwd=SmkwdzkwNUZDQlVFRHNMTHo0RWRIUT09 (Passcode: CRACIA)

In addition to our usual presentations, this spring CRACIA will convene a series of roundtables around the theme, "40 Years of Lowland South American Anthropology". Beginning Friday, January 29, with Joanna Overing's 1981 review article, we will follow members' suggestions for debates and texts to return to for our ongoing ethnographic and theoretical discussions. These dialogues are especially relevant in the buildup to the 2021 meetings of the Society for the Anthropology of Lowland South America, hosted virtually by the University of Virginia (https://www.salsa-tipiti.org/salsa-conferences/2021-salsa-xiii-biennial-conference/).

Revisiting Overing's 1981 "Review of Amazonian Anthropology''

This insightful review article, written by Joanna Overing in 1981, has often been overshadowed. Yet, this foundational work proposed a schema for understanding similarities and differences across Native Amazonian socialities that had a significant impact on later works.  Let's return to it and see how we would regard it today. 

Roundtable Presenters:

- George Mentore, University of Virginia

- Luisa Elvira Belaunde, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, UNMSM

- Juan Pablo Sarmiento, University of Sussex

- Chris Hewlett, University of Maryland & University of Sussex

Each contributor will give an informal 15 minute presentation before we open to discussion. Topics and debates will form the basis for two subsequent roundtables later in the semester; exact dates and the full schedule will be finalized shortly.