VÍTOR DA SILVA

Vítor da Silva is an ethnographer who works alongside indigenous communities to preserve their cultures.

 

His fieldwork takes him to the remotest corners of the globe. Some of the communities he has worked with include: the Maasai people (Kenya), Changpa nomadic people (Himalayas), Maijuna people (Peruvian Amazon), Noke Kuin people (Brazilian Amazon), Yukuna people (Colombian Amazon).

 

Topics include: shamanism and sacred rituals, indigenous traditional knowledge systems, repatriation of tangible cultural heritage and cultural preservation projects. 

 

His postgraduate thesis “Ritual, Resistance and the Right to Exist” focuses on the relationship between sacred rituals and the power of resistance among Indigenous Peoples in Brazil — an ethnographic research part of his Postgraduate degree from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). Vítor is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society (RGS) and the Amazon Center for Environmental Education and Research (ACEER).