Camilla Morelli
Biographic Data
| ID | 92906 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Camilla Morelli |
| GIVEN NAMES | Camilla |
| FAMILY NAME | Morelli |
| SIGNATURE | MORELLI C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Bristol |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3290-3517 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 21 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Animating the Sharing Economy
This article brings a youth-centred perspective to a long-debated anthropological subject: the clashes between sharing and money economies, and the challenges faced by those transitioning between the two. We focus on the experiences of young Amazonians who left subsistence-based rural lifestyles to access urban livelihoods built upon waged labour. Drawing on participatory methodologies – specifically, coproduction of ethnographic animation – we e…
Educational Trajectories Among Young Indigenous Women in Amazonia
This article examines a growing demand for higher education among Indigenous Amazonian women, exploring their educational goals and the challenges they face. We examine how young women's desire to access new educational opportunities is entwined with an aspiration to become new kinds of persons, but also to support their own communities. We argue that women's demand for education is actively shaping new futures, opening new pathways toward educat…
Animating the Future
Children of the Rainforest
Children of the Rainforest explores the lives of children growing up in a time of radical change in Amazonia. The book draws on ethnographic fieldwork conducted with the Matses, a group of hunter-gatherer forest dwellers who have lived in voluntary isolation until fairly recently. Having worked with them for over a decade, returning every year to their villages in the rainforest, Camilla Morelli follows closely the life-trajectories of Matses chi…
A view from the ground
This article explores the use of participatory photography in ethnographic research with hunter-gatherer children. Drawing on my fieldwork in Peruvian Amazonia, I examine on how participatory photography can help researchers of childhood to move beyond the notion of child voice and explore non-verbal realms of knowledge from a child-centred perspective. While acknowledging the drawbacks and limits of child-centred visual methods, I will focus pri…
The Right to Change Co‐Producing Ethnographic Animation with Indigenous Youth in Amazonia
This article explores the use of ethnographic animation as a method to engage Indigenous youth actively in the production and representation of knowledge, producing research that not only examines social change, but also establishes pathways for change driven by participants themselves. Drawing on a recent collaboration with a professional animator, an Indigenous artist, and young Matses migrants in Amazonian Peru, I discuss how ethnographic anim…
Teaching the anthropology of childhood at the university of bristol, uk
Biography and Introduction I am a Lecturer in Social Anthropology at the University of Bristol, UK. My research focuses on the lives of children and youth in Amazonian Peru, where I have conducted ethnographic fieldwork over the past ten years working with indigenous Matses people. I specifically examine how children and youth participate in ongoing processes of socioeconomic change that are taking place across Latin America and beyond, and I dem…
The river echoes with laughter
This article examines radical social, cultural, and political changes taking place in Amazonia from the perspective of indigenous children and youth: a group who, despite their demographic prevalence, have received limited attention in the regional literature. Drawing on fieldwork with Matses people in Peru, I consider how children and youth are playing a critical role in the transition from a hunter-gatherer, forest-based society towards a river…
Teaching in the Rainforest
This paper focuses on Matses children of Peruvian Amazonia and their experiences of formal schooling. Scholars working in Amazonia have emphasised the dysfunctional role of schools in Amerindian societies, suggesting that formal education is predicated upon parameters of learning that often contradict and challenge native understandings. This work, however, largely overlooked children s lived experience and affective encounters in the classroom, …
The river echoes with laughter
This article examines radical social, cultural, and political changes taking place in Amazonia from the perspective of indigenous children and youth: a group who, despite their demographic prevalence, have received limited attention in the regional literature. Drawing on fieldwork with Matses people in Peru, I consider how children and youth are playing a critical role in the transition from a hunter-gatherer, forest-based society towards a river…
The Right to Change Co‐Producing Ethnographic Animation with Indigenous Youth in Amazonia
This article explores the use of ethnographic animation as a method to engage Indigenous youth actively in the production and representation of knowledge, producing research that not only examines social change, but also establishes pathways for change driven by participants themselves. Drawing on a recent collaboration with a professional animator, an Indigenous artist, and young Matses migrants in Amazonian Peru, I discuss how ethnographic anim…
Teaching in the Rainforest
This paper focuses on Matses children of Peruvian Amazonia and their experiences of formal schooling. Scholars working in Amazonia have emphasised the dysfunctional role of schools in Amerindian societies, suggesting that formal education is predicated upon parameters of learning that often contradict and challenge native understandings. This work, however, largely overlooked children s lived experience and affective encounters in the classroom, …
Teaching in the Rainforest
This paper focuses on Matses children of Peruvian Amazonia and their experiences of formal schooling. Scholars working in Amazonia have emphasised the dysfunctional role of schools in Amerindian societies, suggesting that formal education is predicated upon parameters of learning that often contradict and challenge native understandings. This work, however, largely overlooked children s lived experience and affective encounters in the classroom, …
The river echoes with laughter
This article examines radical social, cultural, and political changes taking place in Amazonia from the perspective of indigenous children and youth: a group who, despite their demographic prevalence, have received limited attention in the regional literature. Drawing on fieldwork with Matses people in Peru, I consider how children and youth are playing a critical role in the transition from a hunter-gatherer, forest-based society towards a river…
Teaching the anthropology of childhood at the university of bristol, uk
Biography and Introduction I am a Lecturer in Social Anthropology at the University of Bristol, UK. My research focuses on the lives of children and youth in Amazonian Peru, where I have conducted ethnographic fieldwork over the past ten years working with indigenous Matses people. I specifically examine how children and youth participate in ongoing processes of socioeconomic change that are taking place across Latin America and beyond, and I dem…
The Right to Change Co‐Producing Ethnographic Animation with Indigenous Youth in Amazonia
This article explores the use of ethnographic animation as a method to engage Indigenous youth actively in the production and representation of knowledge, producing research that not only examines social change, but also establishes pathways for change driven by participants themselves. Drawing on a recent collaboration with a professional animator, an Indigenous artist, and young Matses migrants in Amazonian Peru, I discuss how ethnographic anim…
A view from the ground
This article explores the use of participatory photography in ethnographic research with hunter-gatherer children. Drawing on my fieldwork in Peruvian Amazonia, I examine on how participatory photography can help researchers of childhood to move beyond the notion of child voice and explore non-verbal realms of knowledge from a child-centred perspective. While acknowledging the drawbacks and limits of child-centred visual methods, I will focus pri…
Children of the Rainforest
Children of the Rainforest explores the lives of children growing up in a time of radical change in Amazonia. The book draws on ethnographic fieldwork conducted with the Matses, a group of hunter-gatherer forest dwellers who have lived in voluntary isolation until fairly recently. Having worked with them for over a decade, returning every year to their villages in the rainforest, Camilla Morelli follows closely the life-trajectories of Matses chi…
Educational Trajectories Among Young Indigenous Women in Amazonia
This article examines a growing demand for higher education among Indigenous Amazonian women, exploring their educational goals and the challenges they face. We examine how young women's desire to access new educational opportunities is entwined with an aspiration to become new kinds of persons, but also to support their own communities. We argue that women's demand for education is actively shaping new futures, opening new pathways toward educat…
Animating the Future
Animating the Sharing Economy
This article brings a youth-centred perspective to a long-debated anthropological subject: the clashes between sharing and money economies, and the challenges faced by those transitioning between the two. We focus on the experiences of young Amazonians who left subsistence-based rural lifestyles to access urban livelihoods built upon waged labour. Drawing on participatory methodologies – specifically, coproduction of ethnographic animation – we e…
Ethnography (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Amazon rainforest (6 works) · Anthropology (6 works) · Children's Rights and Participation (6 works) · Ecology (6 works) · Indigenous (5 works) · Participatory Visual Research Methods (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Art (3 works)