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Zent, Eglee Lopez

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Grant Type: 
Hunt Postdoctoral Fellowship
Insitutional Affiliation: 
Instituto Venezolano de Investigaciones Cientificas
Status: 
Completed Grant
Approve Date: 
May 3, 2006
Project Title: 
Zent, Dr. Eglee Lopez, Instituto Venezolano de Investigaciones Cientificas, Caracas, Venezuela - To aid research and writing on 'Choosing to be Hunter-Gatherers: Hoti Ecological Ethos and Praxis' - Richard Carley Hunt Fellowship

Dr. Egleé L Zent, Instituto Venezolano de Investigaciones Científicas, Caracas, Venezuela, received a Hunt Postdoctoral Fellowship in December 2006 to aid research and writing on 'Choosing to be Hunter-Gatherers: Hotï Ecological Ethos and Praxis.' The fellowship allowed several months of comprehensive library research across several disciplines reviewing the published literature on Amazonian Amerindian ecocosmological ideologies and praxis, and related topics (human ecology, ethnobiology, ecophilosophy, perspectivism, mythology, ritual, shamanism, ethnomedicine, notions of personhood, eschatology). Extensive analysis of original field data was carried out also, including the creation of different time-consuming data bases in digital formats. Seven chapters of a monograph and two papers have been written thereafter on the ecological ethos and practices of the Hotï people, a hunter-gatherer group of the Venezuelan Amazon focused on the interlink between material and ideological reasons to explain the hunter-gatherer's ethos.