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James Andrew Whitaker (Ph.D. Anthropology, Tulane University) is an Honorary Research Fellow in Social Anthropology at the University of St Andrews and a Post-Doctoral Researcher at the CNRS (USR 3456, LEEISA) in Cayenne, French Guiana. He has conducted fieldwork with Indigenous communities (primarily Makushi and Akawaio) in Guyana and archival research in the UK, US, and Guyana. His work centres around ethnohistory, historical ecology, and ontologies in Amazonia.
He is currently in the process of expanding his ethnographic work to West Africa (primarily Liberia) and will be conducting new fieldwork there during the summer of 2022.
He is working on a book and two edited volumes.
Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
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Post-Doctoral Researcher, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
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Climatic and ecological change in the Americas: a perspective from historical ecology
Whitaker, J. A. (Editor), Armstrong, C. G. (Editor) & Odonne, G. (Editor), 17 Aug 2023, Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge Taylor & Francis Group. 248 p. (New frontiers in historical ecology)Research output: Book/Report › Book
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Introduction
Whitaker, J. A., Armstrong, C. G. & Odonne, G., 17 Aug 2023, Climatic and ecological change in the Americas: a perspective from historical ecology. Whitaker, J. A., Armstrong, C. G. & Odonne, G. (eds.). Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, p. 1-13 13 p. (New frontiers in historical ecology).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review
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Owning climate change among the Makushi and Akawaio
Whitaker, J. A., 17 Aug 2023, Climatic and ecological change in the Americas: a perspective from historical ecology. Whitaker, J. A., Armstrong, C. G. & Odonne, G. (eds.). Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, p. 213-228 16 p. (New frontiers in historical ecology).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
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Sorcery and well-being: bodily transformation at Beckeranta
Whitaker, J. A., 14 Jan 2021, In: Anthropology & Medicine. 28, 1, p. 78-93 16 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Totemic outsiders: ontological transformation among the Makushi
Whitaker, J. A., 1 Sept 2021, In: Religion and Society. 12, 1, p. 70-85 16 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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