Carlos D Londoño Sulkin
Biographic Data
| ID | 135661 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Carlos D Londoño Sulkin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Carlos D Londoño |
| FAMILY NAME | Sulkin |
| SIGNATURE | SULKIN C D L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Regina |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 87 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Harms of the current global anti-FGM campaign
Traditional female genital practices, though long-standing in many cultures, have become the focus of an expansive global campaign against ‘female genital mutilation’ (FGM). In this article, we critically examine the harms produced by the anti-FGM discourse and policies, despite their grounding in human rights and health advocacy. We argue that a ubiquitous ‘standard tale’ obscures the diversity of practices, meanings and experiences among those …
El dramático Dr. Peter Gow
Obituario de Peter Gow, compartido con la comunidad de la Society for the Anthropology of Lowland South America en la ocasion de su muerte, el 18 de mayo de 2021
Love and anger in Amazonia and in academia: A disciple's account of Joanna Overing's oeuvre and teachings
In the Caquetá, Colombia, in 1995, I asked an Englishman who was doing fieldwork for his Ph.D. at Oxford for advice about graduate studies in the UK. 'Maybe consider going to Joanna Overing,' he recommended. He thought that she and her students were doing the most exciting research in Amazonianist anthropology at the time. Meeting him was the first in a chain of fortunate events that led to my doing a Ph.D. under Joanna's supervision and witnessi…
The Inimical Gaze: Morality and the Reproduction of Sociality in Amazonia
Many Indigenous lowland South American peoples treat the thinking, feeling self as constituted by the process of relating to a panoply of others, including enemies. This need for alterity in the constitution of selves is arguably part of a loose but widespread and enduring pattern – an ‘Amazonian package’ – that also tends to feature claims to the effect that the collective fabrication of beautiful, competent, human bodies is a central purpose of…
On dropping one’s trousers and reclaiming relativism: A reply to ‘The prosecution of Dawoodi Bohra women’ by Richard Shweder
People do the kinds of things with vulvas and penes that they do with other meaningful forms: they include them directly or indirectly in meaningful gestures—by showing, hiding, touching, or altering their appearance, or by speaking about them—to establish and negotiate and sometimes end relationships, to express or live up to a certain picture of the kinds of persons they are or ought or desire to be, and to make claims about the world. The mean…
Indigenous peoples boxed in by Brazil's political crisis
Agribusiness has unprecedented leverage over highly unpopular Brazilian president Michel Temer, who is faced with several corruption charges and is struggling for political survival. In a little over one year, the agribusiness lobby and its allies have managed to erode thirty years of human rights and conservation laws. Indigenous peoples and their territorial rights are among the main targets of such policies, and there is no resolution to the s…
On Engagement with the Works of Peers
The Conversations in the Lobby event was established in memory of Steve Rubenstein, a colleague brimming with generous advice for young colleagues and peers.On the occasion of the X Sesquiannual Conference of SALSA, Carlos D. Londoo Sulkin follows in this spirit by generating and facilitating discussion about scholars' engagement with peers' work, when they anonymously review manuscripts, tenure applications, and grant proposals, or when they sus…
Believing in the Gift: A Case of Successful Relationships of Exchange in the Colombian Amazon
Since the late 70’s, the Colombian anthropologist Juan Alvaro Echeverri has logged more than five years in Uitoto and closely related communities in the Colombian Amazon. His relationships with individuals there have been long-lived and surprisingly successful, in contrast with the often-noted disappointment of many philanthropically oriented outsiders—NGO agents, anthropologists, missionaries, government personnel—who come to find ‘their Indians…
La circuncisión femenina, la antropología y el liberalismo
Este ensayo es una respuesta positiva del autor, un antropólogo con experiencia en otros temas, a una ponencia y varios escritos de la antropóloga sierraleonesa y estadinense del Dr. Fuambai Ahmadu sobre el tema de la circuncisión femenina en África. Persuadido por los argumentos de Ahmadu, el autor arguye que parte de las percepciones y de la retórica de los movimientos anti MGF (anti mutilación genital femenina) son parroquiales y no liberales …
Anthropology, liberalism and female genital cutting
This essay is the reaction of a non-specialist on Africanist ethnography and female genital cutting to Sierra Leonese American Scholar Dr Fuambai Ahmadu's work on these matters. It argues that some anti-FGM perceptions and rhetoric are parochial and illiberal, and calls for anthropologists to take counsel both from our discipline's methodological requirement actually to pay attention to what the people we write about say and do over extended peri…
Inhuman beings: Morality and perspectivism among Muinane people (Colombian Amazon)
Núme ... jana ? diibo ésámaje? -Diibo ... 'Tañaabo' .1 This is a rough transliteration into Colombian Spanish. However, doubled vowels represent extended vowels, and accent marks represent a high tone. The represents the IPA's and the 'v' represents a voiced bilabial fricative. -Núme ... how about the jaguar's Speech? How are his thoughts/emotions? -He ... he does not say 'My brother'. Like many other Amazonians, Muinane people often use perspect…
Inhuman beings: Morality and perspectivism among Muinane people (Colombian Amazon)
Núme ... jana ? diibo ésámaje? -Diibo ... 'Tañaabo' .1 This is a rough transliteration into Colombian Spanish. However, doubled vowels represent extended vowels, and accent marks represent a high tone. The represents the IPA's and the 'v' represents a voiced bilabial fricative. -Núme ... how about the jaguar's Speech? How are his thoughts/emotions? -He ... he does not say 'My brother'. Like many other Amazonians, Muinane people often use perspect…
Indigenous peoples boxed in by Brazil's political crisis
Agribusiness has unprecedented leverage over highly unpopular Brazilian president Michel Temer, who is faced with several corruption charges and is struggling for political survival. In a little over one year, the agribusiness lobby and its allies have managed to erode thirty years of human rights and conservation laws. Indigenous peoples and their territorial rights are among the main targets of such policies, and there is no resolution to the s…
On dropping one’s trousers and reclaiming relativism: A reply to ‘The prosecution of Dawoodi Bohra women’ by Richard Shweder
People do the kinds of things with vulvas and penes that they do with other meaningful forms: they include them directly or indirectly in meaningful gestures—by showing, hiding, touching, or altering their appearance, or by speaking about them—to establish and negotiate and sometimes end relationships, to express or live up to a certain picture of the kinds of persons they are or ought or desire to be, and to make claims about the world. The mean…
Anthropology, liberalism and female genital cutting
This essay is the reaction of a non-specialist on Africanist ethnography and female genital cutting to Sierra Leonese American Scholar Dr Fuambai Ahmadu's work on these matters. It argues that some anti-FGM perceptions and rhetoric are parochial and illiberal, and calls for anthropologists to take counsel both from our discipline's methodological requirement actually to pay attention to what the people we write about say and do over extended peri…
Inhuman beings: Morality and perspectivism among Muinane people (Colombian Amazon)
Núme ... jana ? diibo ésámaje? -Diibo ... 'Tañaabo' .1 This is a rough transliteration into Colombian Spanish. However, doubled vowels represent extended vowels, and accent marks represent a high tone. The represents the IPA's and the 'v' represents a voiced bilabial fricative. -Núme ... how about the jaguar's Speech? How are his thoughts/emotions? -He ... he does not say 'My brother'. Like many other Amazonians, Muinane people often use perspect…
Anthropology, liberalism and female genital cutting
This essay is the reaction of a non-specialist on Africanist ethnography and female genital cutting to Sierra Leonese American Scholar Dr Fuambai Ahmadu's work on these matters. It argues that some anti-FGM perceptions and rhetoric are parochial and illiberal, and calls for anthropologists to take counsel both from our discipline's methodological requirement actually to pay attention to what the people we write about say and do over extended peri…
La circuncisión femenina, la antropología y el liberalismo
Este ensayo es una respuesta positiva del autor, un antropólogo con experiencia en otros temas, a una ponencia y varios escritos de la antropóloga sierraleonesa y estadinense del Dr. Fuambai Ahmadu sobre el tema de la circuncisión femenina en África. Persuadido por los argumentos de Ahmadu, el autor arguye que parte de las percepciones y de la retórica de los movimientos anti MGF (anti mutilación genital femenina) son parroquiales y no liberales …
Believing in the Gift: A Case of Successful Relationships of Exchange in the Colombian Amazon
Since the late 70’s, the Colombian anthropologist Juan Alvaro Echeverri has logged more than five years in Uitoto and closely related communities in the Colombian Amazon. His relationships with individuals there have been long-lived and surprisingly successful, in contrast with the often-noted disappointment of many philanthropically oriented outsiders—NGO agents, anthropologists, missionaries, government personnel—who come to find ‘their Indians…
On Engagement with the Works of Peers
The Conversations in the Lobby event was established in memory of Steve Rubenstein, a colleague brimming with generous advice for young colleagues and peers.On the occasion of the X Sesquiannual Conference of SALSA, Carlos D. Londoo Sulkin follows in this spirit by generating and facilitating discussion about scholars' engagement with peers' work, when they anonymously review manuscripts, tenure applications, and grant proposals, or when they sus…
Indigenous peoples boxed in by Brazil's political crisis
Agribusiness has unprecedented leverage over highly unpopular Brazilian president Michel Temer, who is faced with several corruption charges and is struggling for political survival. In a little over one year, the agribusiness lobby and its allies have managed to erode thirty years of human rights and conservation laws. Indigenous peoples and their territorial rights are among the main targets of such policies, and there is no resolution to the s…
On dropping one’s trousers and reclaiming relativism: A reply to ‘The prosecution of Dawoodi Bohra women’ by Richard Shweder
People do the kinds of things with vulvas and penes that they do with other meaningful forms: they include them directly or indirectly in meaningful gestures—by showing, hiding, touching, or altering their appearance, or by speaking about them—to establish and negotiate and sometimes end relationships, to express or live up to a certain picture of the kinds of persons they are or ought or desire to be, and to make claims about the world. The mean…
The Inimical Gaze: Morality and the Reproduction of Sociality in Amazonia
Many Indigenous lowland South American peoples treat the thinking, feeling self as constituted by the process of relating to a panoply of others, including enemies. This need for alterity in the constitution of selves is arguably part of a loose but widespread and enduring pattern – an ‘Amazonian package’ – that also tends to feature claims to the effect that the collective fabrication of beautiful, competent, human bodies is a central purpose of…
Love and anger in Amazonia and in academia: A disciple's account of Joanna Overing's oeuvre and teachings
In the Caquetá, Colombia, in 1995, I asked an Englishman who was doing fieldwork for his Ph.D. at Oxford for advice about graduate studies in the UK. 'Maybe consider going to Joanna Overing,' he recommended. He thought that she and her students were doing the most exciting research in Amazonianist anthropology at the time. Meeting him was the first in a chain of fortunate events that led to my doing a Ph.D. under Joanna's supervision and witnessi…
Harms of the current global anti-FGM campaign
Traditional female genital practices, though long-standing in many cultures, have become the focus of an expansive global campaign against ‘female genital mutilation’ (FGM). In this article, we critically examine the harms produced by the anti-FGM discourse and policies, despite their grounding in human rights and health advocacy. We argue that a ubiquitous ‘standard tale’ obscures the diversity of practices, meanings and experiences among those …
El dramático Dr. Peter Gow
Obituario de Peter Gow, compartido con la comunidad de la Society for the Anthropology of Lowland South America en la ocasion de su muerte, el 18 de mayo de 2021
Sociology (7 works) · Philosophy (6 works) · Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting Issues (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Amazon rainforest (3 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (3 works) · Art (3 works) · Biology (3 works) · Ecology (3 works) · Epistemology (3 works)