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e-flux journal 56th Venice Biennale – SUPERCOMMUNITY – Marisol de la Cadena

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is an anthropologist, born in Peru, who teaches at UC Davis. She is the current President of the Society for Cultural Anthropology. In 2008 she was a John Simon Guggenheim fellow. Her new book, Earth-Beings: Ecologies of Practice across Andean Worlds, is forthcoming (October 2015) with Duke University Press. During the academic year 2012–2013 she organized (with Mario Blaser) “Indigenous Cosmopolitics: Dialogues about the Reconstitution of Worlds,”  a John E. Sawyer Seminar which was held at UC Davis. On June 5, 2009, at dawn, a violent confrontation took place between police forces and a large group of Peruvian citizens declaring themselves as belonging to the Awajun-Wampis indigenous groups. The police’s objective was to break up a blockade at a major highway near the town of Bagua in the Amazonian lowlands of northern Peru. The Awajun-Wampis had taken control of the highway at a place called La Curva del Diablo (Devil’s Curve) as part of a general strike that started on April 9 that

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