Bruce Albert

Bruce Albert is research director at the Research Institute for Development (IRD, São Paulo, Brazil, and Paris), a french government international cooperation institution. He is also vice-president of CCPY (Comissão Pro-Yanomami) the leading NGO working with the Yanomami in Brazil. Born in Morocco, he has since 1975 been conducting ethnographic research on the social organization and religious practices of the Yanomami of Brazil as well as on the impact of social change among them. In addition, he has conducted research on indigenous NGOs and policies of sustainable development in the Brazilian Amazon and has published articles on the ethics of anthropological fieldwork.

 

 

 

 

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