Rappaport, Joanne

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Grant Type: 
Int'l Collaborative Research Grant
Insitutional Affiliation: 
Georgetown U.
Status: 
Completed Grant
Approve Date: 
May 30, 2001
Project Title: 
Rappaport, Dr. Joanne, Georgetown U., Washington, DC; and Dr. Tulio Rojas Curieux - To aid collaborative research on transformations in Colombian ethnic politics since the 1970's

Publication Credit:

Rappaport, Joanne. 2005. Intercultural Utopias. Duke University Press: Durham, NC, and London, UK.

Rappaport, Joanne (ed). 2005. Retornando La Mirada: Una Investigacion Colaborativa Sobre El Cauca a La Entrada del Milenio. Universidad del Cauca: Popayan, Colombia.

Grant Year: 
2001
Award Amount: 
$23,800

Rappaport, Joanne

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Grant Type: 
Int'l Collaborative Research Grant
Insitutional Affiliation: 
Georgetown U.
Status: 
Completed Grant
Approve Date: 
May 24, 2005
Project Title: 
Rappaport, Dr. Joanne, Georgetown U. Washington, DC; and Dr. Marta Zambrano, U. Nacional de Colombia, Bogota, Colombia - To aid collaborative research on 'Race and Mestizaje in Early Colonial Bogota'

Publication credit:

Rappaport, Joanne. 2012. Beyond the Lettered City: Indigenous Literacies in the Andes. Duke University Press: Durham and London.

Grant Year: 
2005
Award Amount: 
$30,000

Praet, Istvan F.

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Grant Type: 
Dissertation Fieldwork Grant
Insitutional Affiliation: 
Oxford U.
Status: 
Completed Grant
Approve Date: 
June 3, 2004
Project Title: 
Praet, Istvan F., U. of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom - To aid research on 'Personhood, Society, and Nature: Historical Ecology of the Chachi, Esmeraldas, Ecuador,' supervised by Dr. Laura M. Rival

Publication Credit:

Praet, Istvan. 2009. Shamanism and Ritual in South America: An Inquiry into Amerindian Shapeshifting.
Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 15(4):737-754.

Grant Year: 
2004
Award Amount: 
$23,250

Praet, Istvan F.

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Grant Type: 
Hunt Postdoctoral Fellowship
Insitutional Affiliation: 
Oxford U.
Status: 
Completed Grant
Approve Date: 
October 15, 2008
Project Title: 
Praet, Dr. Istvan, U. of Oxford, Oxford, UK - To aid research and writing on 'Metamorphosis Among So-Called Indigenous Peoples: An Investigation into 'Animistic' Notions of Life and Death' - Hunt Postdoctoral Fellowship

DR. ISTVAN PRAET, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom, was awarded a Hunt Postdoctoral Fellowship in October 2008 to aid research and writing on 'Metamorphosis Among So-Called Indigenous Peoples: An Investigation into 'Animistic' Notions of Life and Death.' The first draft of a monograph, entitled 'Anthropology and the Question of Life.' was completed during the Fellowship and the resulting book proposal is currently under review with Cambridge University Press. The monograph focuses on a phenomenon that is normally considered to be the exclusive domain of natural science: life.

Grant Year: 
2008
Award Amount: 
$40,000

Poole, Deborah A.

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Grant Type: 
Int'l Collaborative Research Grant
Insitutional Affiliation: 
Johns Hopkins U.
Status: 
Active Grant
Approve Date: 
May 27, 2010
Project Title: 
Poole, Dr. Deborah A., Johns Hopkins U., Baltimore, MD; and Harvey, Dr. Penelope, U. of Manchester, Manchester, UK - To aid collaborative research on 'Experimental States: Law, Engineering, and Regional Government in Cusco, Peru'

Preliminary abstact: Our collaborative study of the Regional Government of Cusco seeks to open up anthropological approaches to the study of the modern state through an ethnography that brings together Poole's work on law and the state, and Harvey's work on engineering and the 'politics of nature'. Our ethnography of this newly formed layering of the Peruvian state explores the discontinuous relations of expertise and regulation through which state power is reconfigured.

Grant Year: 
2010
Award Amount: 
$34,930

Pinheiro-Machado, Rosana

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Grant Type: 
Dissertation Fieldwork Grant
Insitutional Affiliation: 
Rio Grande do Sul, Federal U. of
Status: 
Completed Grant
Approve Date: 
November 4, 2005
Project Title: 
Machado, Rosana P., Federal U. of Rio Grande do Sui, Porto Alegre, Brazil - To aid research on 'Made in China: Commercial Practices among Chinese Immigrants in Ciudad del Este, Paraguay,' supervised by Dr. Ruben G. Oliven

ROSANA PINHEIRO MACHADO, while a student at Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil, received funding in November 2005 to aid research on 'Made in China: Commercial Practices among Chinese Immigrants in Ciudad del Este, Paraguay,' supervised by Dr. Ruben G. Oliven. The ethnographic research sought to comprehend the flow of Chinese goods in the route China-Paraguay-Brazil. This market interweaves levels of legality/illegality, formality/informality in a situation in which a great part of the traded goods is falsified/replica and enters Latin America as smuggling.

Grant Year: 
2005
Award Amount: 
$22,965

Pico, Mercedes

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Grant Type: 
Wadsworth Fellowship
Insitutional Affiliation: 
Buenos Aires, U. of
Status: 
Completed Fellowship
Approve Date: 
July 2, 2008
Project Title: 
Pico, Mercedes, U. of Buenos Aires, Argentina - To aid library residency at Binghamton U., Binghamton, New York, supervised by Dr. Carmen A. Ferradas
Grant Year: 
2008
Award Amount: 
$4,825

Perez, Federico

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Grant Type: 
Dissertation Fieldwork Grant
Insitutional Affiliation: 
Harvard U.
Status: 
Completed Grant
Approve Date: 
April 18, 2011
Project Title: 
Perez, Federico, Harvard U., Cambridge, MA - To aid research on 'Rethinking the City: The Making of Policy and Space in Bogotá, Colombia,' supervised by Dr. Kimberly Theidon

FEDERICO PÉREZ, then a student at Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, received a grant in April 2011 to aid research on 'Rethinking the City: The Making of Policy and Space in Bogotá, Colombia,' supervised by Dr. Kimberly Theidon. This project explored the making of contemporary urban policy in Bogotá, Colombia, through the ethnographic study of the city's planning department and its related communities of practice.

Grant Year: 
2011
Award Amount: 
$10,000

Parson, Nia Christine

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Grant Type: 
Dissertation Fieldwork Grant
Insitutional Affiliation: 
Rutgers U.
Status: 
Completed Grant
Approve Date: 
July 30, 2002
Project Title: 
Parson, Nia C., Rutgers U., New Brunswick,NJ - To aid research on 'Gender, Trauma and Healing in Chile: An Ethnographic Exploration of Domestic Violence During Dictatorial Rule,' supervised by Dr. Peter J. Guarnaccia

NIA C. PARSON, while a student at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey, received funding in July 2002 to aid ethnographic research on domestic violence during the transition from dictatorship (1973-90) to democracy (1990-present) in Santiago, Chile, under the supervision of Dr. Peter J. Guarnaccia. The violent and repressive ideologies, policies, and practices of the Chilean dictatorship aimed to depoliticize the population and encourage passivity in the face of authority-both in the state and in the home.

Grant Year: 
2002
Award Amount: 
$10,854

Pardue, Derek Parkman

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Grant Type: 
Dissertation Fieldwork Grant
Insitutional Affiliation: 
Illinois, Urbana, U. of
Status: 
Completed Grant
Approve Date: 
December 11, 2001
Project Title: 
Pardue, Derek P., U. of Illinois, Urbana, IL - To aid research on 'Blackness and Periphery: A Retelling of Marginality in Hip-Hop Culture of Sao Paulo, Brazil,' supervised by Dr. Norman E. Whitten Jr.

DEREK P. PARDUE, while a student at University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois, was awarded a grant in December 2001 to aid research on 'Blackness and Periphery: A Retelling of Marginality in Hip-Hop Culture of Sao Paulo, Brazil,' supervised by Dr. Norman E. Whitten, Jr. The grant from Wenner-Gren complemented an already existing dissertation fieldwork grant from the Social Science Research Council (SSRC - Arts).

Grant Year: 
2001
Award Amount: 
$4,000
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