CLALSIS Series with Distinguished Visiting Scholar Mariela Eva Rodriguez

Ceremonia de restitución de Sam Slick
Lote 6, Lago Cardiel, provincia de Santa Cruz, Argentina
30 de noviembre – 1 de diciembre de 2019  

 

Entre recuperaciones y restituciones: Desafíos de una etnografía colaborativa con pueblos indígenas reemergentes de la Patagonia austral y de Uruguay

 

Bio:

Dr. Mariela Eva Rodríguez will spend two months at the University of Pennsylvania as a Distinguished Latin American Visiting Scholar at the Center for Latin American and Latinx Studies (CLALS). She studied Anthropology at the University of Buenos Aires (Argentina), holds a Master in Romance Languages and Literature from the University of Notre Dame, and a Ph.D. in Latin American Literature and Cultural Studies from Georgetown University. She is an Associate Researcher at the National Council of Scientific and Technological Research (CONICET) at the Institute of Anthropological Sciences of the Universidad de Buenos Aires, and Adjunct Professor of Anthropology at the same university. For eight years, she was a Professor at the Facultad Latinoamericana en Ciencias Sociales (FLACSO), and in 2015 and in 2020, she was a Visiting Professor at the University of Michigan. Dr. Rodríguez has obtained scholarships and fellowships for academic training and research in both countries and has directed and co-directed various research projects in Argentina and the United Kingdom.

Her research in Southern Patagonia links Indigenous Peoples demands, State policies and academic projects. From an engaged and collaborative ethnographic approach with Mapuche, Tehuelche (Aonekenk) and Mapuche-Thuelche people from Patagonia, and with Charrua people from Uruguay, she studies the relationships between past and present through oral memories and archive research. Among other topics, she is concerned with Indigenous re-emergency related to ethnogenesis processes, indigenous land recovery, human remains repatriations, interculturality, heritagization and archaeologization processes. Since 2008, she is one of the coordinators of the Group of Studies on Altered and Subordinated Memories (GEMAS) and, since 2017, she is among the coordinators of the Information and Discussion Network on Archeology and Heritage (RIDAP). Her publications are available here.