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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.
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.”
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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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