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Frédérique Apffel-Marglin
Ph.D., Anthropology Brandeis University
Emerita Professor of Anthropology at Smith College, Apffel-Marglin has done two decades of fieldwork in India. Bolivia, and in Peru, where she now directs an NGO. From 1985 - 91, she was co-director with the Harvard economist Stephen Marglin at the World Institute for Economics Research (WIDER), part of the UN University in Helsinki, Finland. Apffel-Marglin has authored some 50 published articles and authored and co-edited numerous books and chapters in her areas of specialization: religion, gender; critiques of development; science studies and indigenous traditions and ecology. She is director and founder of this program.
Gillian Goslinga
Ph.D., History of Consciousness Program, University of California,
Santa Cruz
M.A., Visual Anthropology, University of Southern California
B.A., Anthropology and Comparative Religions, Smith College
Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Wesleyan University, Goslinga is interested in the poetics and politics of incommensurable knowledges and has worked in South India on so-called "virgin birth" beliefs (the attribution of reproductive agency to gods and goddesses) and in Peru and the U.S. on shamanic traditions of healing self and community. She is attentive to the post-colonial charge of inter-cultural spaces where understandings of what it means to "be in right relationship with" come to matter ethically, politically and ecologically. She has served as the Academic Director of the South Indian Term Abroad (SITA) in Madurai, Tamilnadu, and participated in Living Routes' Peru program in 2007. Goslinga is also an ethnographic filmmaker, with three films to her credit (see www.der.org) and an avid horsewoman.
Additionally, a wide range of guests from national and community organizations as well as Quechua-Lamista elders offer lectures and seminars.
“Awesome– this program puts learning into context through experience. I feel conscious of the world around me in every sense, not just intellectually, but physically, spiritually, and culturally. This course makes you step back from egotism, anthropocentrism and humbles you... You cannot get this kind of experience anwhere else.”
“My world view has been altered; shaken in a profound way that makes me consider the ideology underlying my perceptions, actions and decisions.”
"The program more than exceeded my expectations! What a wonderful way to learn. This knowledge will stay with me forever unlike many things that are drummed into us but soon forgotten. This program has changed my life. It has helped me to clear my vision of the world."
"The experiential learning has allowed me to be an active participant rather than a passive observer of the other. It further implanted in me the belief in connections between humans and nature – I better understand the wholeness of the world."
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