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Going Out of My Mind in Jandiayacu

  This is a photo I took in July, 2014, during my fieldwork in Jandiayacu. Jandiayacu is a Sapara community in the Amazonian region of Ecuador. It is accessible only by plane or a difficult journey on...

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Don’t Quote Me On This!

Here is a photo I took of an elderly woman in Jandiayacu. She is one of very few people (possible only five remaining) who speak and have a deep knowledge of the Sapara Language. The knowledge of...

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Learning to Fail or Failing to Learn    

Here is a picture of me and a Sapara boy taken on my camera by a girl in Jandiayacu, the Sapara community where I began my research. Nobody really talks about how or why his or her research failed, or...

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Are We All Expert Impostors?

Image credit: PhD Comics www.phdcomics.com/comics/archive.php?comicid=1723 In a previous post (which can be found here), I mentioned the ‘impostor phenomenon’ and how I and many people I know who work...

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CONAIE Headquarters to be Shut Down: Indigenous Peoples of Ecuador Request...

Protestors gather outside the CONAIE (Confederation of Indigenous Nations of Ecuador) in Quito, Ecuador. Yesterday, in Quito, Ecuador, hundreds of Indigenous people from around the country, including...

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Going beyond growth: Why do economists have all the fun?

By Pearson Scott Foresman [Public domain], via Wikimedia CommonsWhat’s in a job title? If an academic came on the radio, TV or wrote a piece in a newspaper, would their title as a ‘sociologist’,...

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