Wednesday, November 3, 2021
12:00-1:30 PM EDT
Marisol de la Cadena
Professor of Anthropology
University of California-Davis
Moderators:
Alex Blanchette, Associate Professor of Anthropology (Tufts University)
Patricia Alvarez Astacio, Assistant Professor of Anthropology (Brandeis University)
Marisol de la Cadena is a Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Davis. She is an author of Indigenous Mestizos (2000), Earth Beings (2015), A World of Many Worlds (2018).
Her interests include the study of politics, multispecies (or multi-entities), indigeneity, history and the a-historical, world anthropologies, and the anthropologies of worlds. The field sites of her current project, Making Cow, are cattle ranches and veterinary schools in Colombia.
In advance of this virtual conversation, we recommend reading Marisol de la Cadena’s 2010 Cultural Anthropology article, “Indigenous Cosmopolitics in the Andes.”
Co-Sponsors: The Office of the Provost, The Center for the Humanities at Tufts; the Department of Anthropology; the Department of Studies in Race, Colonialism, and Diaspora; and the Program in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program
