Vikram Tamboli
Biographic Data
| ID | 179178 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Vikram Tamboli |
| GIVEN NAMES | Vikram |
| FAMILY NAME | Tamboli |
| SIGNATURE | TAMBOLI V |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Los Angeles, California, USA |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Black Water Politics
This article enriches the narrative of ethno‐racial politics in Guyana by analysing the lives and histories of people who live and work in the Guyanese Northwest. It narrates how histories of escape, freedom, and fortune—along with the associated development of the Guyanese interior as an extractive space—were essential to understanding the broader forces that shaped working peoples’ mobility in the region. Using a combined method of conducting o…
Plant Agency in the Guianas
This article uses ethnographic and ethnobotanical methods to examine relationships between animate and agentive plants and human beings among the Makushi, Pemon, Karinya, and other Indigenous and mixed-Indigenous peoples in the Guianas. It considers representations of these plants and related ontologies in the archival record and contrasts these accounts with more recent ethnographic descriptions based on the authors' fieldwork across Guyana and …
Violent First Contact in Venezuela
Peter Hess's critical edition of Nikolaus Federmann's Indian History, a firsthand account of Federmann's entrada (incursion) into mainland South America between 1530 and 1531, is a much-needed addition to the English-language scholarship on colonial Venezuela during the first half of the sixteenth century. Hess's introduction provides context about Federmann (1506–42), a German-born operative of the Welser Company of Augsburg who searched for a p…
Hustling Fuel, Striking Gold
The heist of 70 undeclared gold bars from a Guyanese fishing trawler in Curacao in November 2012 still made for animated discussion the following year when I first started traveling on the Pomeroon
Killing the Black Body
Plant Agency in the Guianas
This article uses ethnographic and ethnobotanical methods to examine relationships between animate and agentive plants and human beings among the Makushi, Pemon, Karinya, and other Indigenous and mixed-Indigenous peoples in the Guianas. It considers representations of these plants and related ontologies in the archival record and contrasts these accounts with more recent ethnographic descriptions based on the authors' fieldwork across Guyana and …
Black Water Politics
This article enriches the narrative of ethno‐racial politics in Guyana by analysing the lives and histories of people who live and work in the Guyanese Northwest. It narrates how histories of escape, freedom, and fortune—along with the associated development of the Guyanese interior as an extractive space—were essential to understanding the broader forces that shaped working peoples’ mobility in the region. Using a combined method of conducting o…
Killing the Black Body
Hustling Fuel, Striking Gold
The heist of 70 undeclared gold bars from a Guyanese fishing trawler in Curacao in November 2012 still made for animated discussion the following year when I first started traveling on the Pomeroon
Violent First Contact in Venezuela
Peter Hess's critical edition of Nikolaus Federmann's Indian History, a firsthand account of Federmann's entrada (incursion) into mainland South America between 1530 and 1531, is a much-needed addition to the English-language scholarship on colonial Venezuela during the first half of the sixteenth century. Hess's introduction provides context about Federmann (1506–42), a German-born operative of the Welser Company of Augsburg who searched for a p…
Black Water Politics
This article enriches the narrative of ethno‐racial politics in Guyana by analysing the lives and histories of people who live and work in the Guyanese Northwest. It narrates how histories of escape, freedom, and fortune—along with the associated development of the Guyanese interior as an extractive space—were essential to understanding the broader forces that shaped working peoples’ mobility in the region. Using a combined method of conducting o…
Plant Agency in the Guianas
This article uses ethnographic and ethnobotanical methods to examine relationships between animate and agentive plants and human beings among the Makushi, Pemon, Karinya, and other Indigenous and mixed-Indigenous peoples in the Guianas. It considers representations of these plants and related ontologies in the archival record and contrasts these accounts with more recent ethnographic descriptions based on the authors' fieldwork across Guyana and …
History (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Archaeology (2 works) · Art (2 works) · Geography (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development (1 work) · Amazon rainforest (1 work) · Amazonian Archaeology and Ethnohistory (1 work)