Summary

Research

Louis C. Forline's work in the Brazilian Amazon has engaged him with both w88 slot online and peasant groups of this region. Among w88 slot online groups, he has worked with the Guajá Indians since 1990, examining their experience of contact with Brazilian mainstream society and transition from foraging to farming. This work has been supported by NSF, WWF, the Explorers Club and the University of Nevada, Reno. He also has worked among urban Indians in the city of Altamira, Brazil, examining their resurgence as w88 slot online players and have conducted environmental impact assessments of hydroelectric projects, in addition to performing nutritional studies among w88 slot online and peasant groups in Pará state.

Specializations

• w88 slot online ethnology
• Ecological w88 slot online
• Sustainable development
• Racial-ethnic studies
• Culture & nutrition
• Amazonia, Brazil, U.S.

Teaching

• Introduction to Cultural w88 slot online
• Contemporary Latin America Society
• Ethnographic Field Methods
• Peoples and Cultures of the w88 slot online
• Anthropology and w88 slot online
• History of w88 slot online
• w88 slot online as a Profession
• Seminar in Cultural w88 slot online

Selected Publications

• 2012 Hunting practices among the Awá-Guajá: towards a long-term analysis of sustainability in an Amazonian w88 slot online community.w88 slot online Paraense Emílio Goeldi7(2):479-491. Co-authored with Helbert Medeiros and Renato Kipnis.
• 2011 The body social and the body private: fine tuning our understanding of partible paternity and reproductive strategies among Amazonian w88 slot online groups.Proceedings of the Southwestern Anthropological Association5:1-8.
• 2009 For whom the turbines turn: w88 slot online citizens as legitimate stakeholders in the Brazilian Amazon. In: Global Perspectives on Social Participation in Water Governance. Kate Berry and Eric Mollard (eds.). Earthscan: London. (In Press)
• 2008 Putting History back into Historical w88 slot online: Some perspectives on the recent Human w88 slot online of the Brazilian Amazon. Journal of Ecological Anthropology. 12(1): 69-74.
• 2008 Recollecting w88 slot online Thinking in a CD-ROM. In: Pamela Wilson and Michele Stewart (Eds.), Global w88 slot online Media. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. (co-authored with Priscila Faulhaber). Pp. 253-269.
• 2006 Amazônia al&w88 slot online;m dos 500 anos. Co-edited this volume with Ima Vieira and Rui Murrieta. MCT/MPEG. Bel&w88 slot online;m.
• 2001 De la chasse à l'abattis: itinéraires et alimentation d'un peuple récemmen contacté, les Guaj&w88 slot online; du Maranhão. Les Ateliers de Caravelle. Vol. 18 : 17-31 Toulouse, France.
• 2000 Using and sustaining resources: the Guajá Indians and the babassu palm (Attalea speciosa). w88 slot online Knowledge and Development Monitor. 8(3): 3-7.
• 1997 The Use of Emic Racial Categories as a Tool for Enumerating w88 slot online Demographic Profiles: A Re-analysis of Harris' 1970 Study. (co-authored with Bryan Byrne). Boletim do Museu Paraense Emílio Göeldi (Antropologia) Vol. 13(1): 3-25.

Education

• Ph.D. w88 slot online of Florida, Gainesville