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Frédérique Apffel-Marglin
Ph.D., Anthropology Brandeis University
Frédérique Apffel-Marglin, PhD. is Professor Emerita, Dept. of Anthropology at
Smith College. She founded the non profit organization Sachamama Center in 2009
which she directs. She was born in France and raised in Tangier, Morocco. She
came to the US to do her University studies. She has spent years in India and
Peru working with indigenous peoples and with farmers and campesinos. She was a
research associate at the World Institute for Development Economics (WIDER) in
Helsinki, a part of the United Nations University, for several years in the
1980's and early 1990's. Along with the Harvard economist Stephen A. Marglin,
she has directed several research projects questioning the dominance of the
modern paradigm of knowledge. She has authored as well as edited eleven books,
three of them resulting from the work at WIDER: Dominating
Knowledge: Development, Culture and
Resistance, and Decolonizing Knowledge: From
Development to Dialogue, both with Oxford Clarendon and both co-edited
with S.A. Marglin; the 3rd book out of the WIDER work is Who Will Save the Forests? co-edited with Tariq Banuri.
In 1993 she decided for political and moral
reasons that she could no longer engage in classical anthropological fieldwork
and ever since then has been invited to collaborate with activist/intellectual
groups in Peru and Bolivia and with one of them, PRATEC, has published The Spirit of Regeneration: Andean Culture Confronting Western
Notions of Development.
Her latest
book is Rhythms of Life: Enacting the World with The
Goddesses of Orissa (2008, Oxford Delhi). She has another book based on
her work in Peru entitled Subversive Spiritualities and
Science: Beyond Anthropocentrism,
http://www.smith.edu/anthro/faculty_apffel-marglin.php
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.
Barbara Galinda Rodrigues
M.A., Brazil Spanish and Portuguese Literature and Theory, Federal University of Pernambuco.
Rodrigues received her licenciatura in Spanish and Portuguese from the Federal
University of Pernambuco in Brazil in 2007 and her masters in Theory of
Literature with a specialization in Spanish language and literature from the
same university in 2010. Her other areas of interest are: comparative
literature, linguistics, and anthropology. She is currently assistant professor
in the undergraduate course in Spanish literature with distance education
program at the Federal University of Pernambuco, Brazil. Rodrigues has
published several essays on the Peruvian authors José María Arguedas and Mario
Vargas Llosa.
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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