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Department of Anthropology
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Ames, Iowa 50011-1050
Hsain Ilahiane
Director of Graduate Education
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Maximilian Viatori
Max Viatori (PhD 2005 University of California, Davis; BA 1999 University of Missouri, Columbia) is a broadly trained socio-cultural anthropologist interested in the intersection of language, identity and political activism. He has conducted ethnographic and linguistic research in the United States and Mexico, although his primary research focus is in Ecuador. Between 2001 and 2004, Viatori examined the role of language revitalization in the construction of indigenous Zápara identity and political participation in the Ecuadorian Amazon. His research was supported by scholarships from the Wenner-Gren Foundation, Phi Beta Kappa, the Endangered Language Foundation and the University of California.
Viatori is currently studying oral histories in the Zápara language, spoken by only a few remaining elders, that document Indians’ interactions with the global economy, missionaries, and the Ecuadorian government in the 19th and 20th centuries. He is also initiating a comparative project with the Ecuadorian Andes and Amazon that will explore the different ways in which language, identity and politics have been constructed in the two areas. He is also currently revising his dissertation for publication as a book manuscript.
Selected publications:
forthcoming
New Bodies, Ancient Blood: 'Purity" and the Construction of Zápara Identity in the Ecuadorian Amazon. Journal of the Society for the Anthropology of Lowland South America.
2007
Speaking Sovereignty: Indigenous Languages and Self-determination (with Gloria Ushigua). Wicazo Sa Review 22 (2):7-21.
2007
Zápara Leaders and Identity Construction in Ecuador: The Complexities of Indigenous Self-Representation. Journal of Latin American Anthropology 12(1):104-133.
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Max Viatori
Office Phone: 515-294-0681
Fax: 515-294-1708
viatori@iastate.edu
319b Curtiss
Ph.D. 2005, University of California-Davis. Assistant Professor, Anthropology.
Socio-cultural and linguistic anthropologist concerned with issues of identity,
the state and discourses of governance, and indigenous movements in Latin
America.
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