James Andrew Whitaker

I am excited to share that my first monograph The Shamanism of Eco-Tourism: History and Ontology among the Makushi in Guyana is now published with Cambridge University Press! 👈 cambridge.org/core/books/sha… Thanks to @ccancellaro and @CambridgeUP ! #Amazonia #Anthropology #History

Our new article "Spoiled by Covid-19: Geontology, Pathogenesis, and Resistance among the Akawaio" is now published in the Journal of the Anthropological Society of Oxford! Here is a link to check it out: jaso.shox.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/JASO/article/v… DOI: doi.org/10.82256/jaso.…

Our new article "On Amazonian Magical Darts" is now published in Folklore! Here is a link to check it out: tandfonline.com/toc/rfol20/cur…

I am happy to announce that our new edited volume ("Indigenous Alliance Making") is now published with the University of Arizona Press! 👈 @AZpress DM me for more info or if you would like to use the book in an anthropology or history class. 30% off discount flyer below!

Really excited that our new edited volume, "Indigenous Alliance Making: Histories of Agency in Colonial Lowland South America," will be published next month by the University of Arizona Press! 👈 @AZpress Here's a 30% off discount flyer:

We are looking forward to the publication of our new edited volume on Amazonia, "Indigenous Alliance Making: Histories of Agency in Colonial Lowland South America," by the University of Arizona Press this October! 👈 @AZpress uapress.arizona.edu/book/indigenou…

We had a really productive workshop last Friday on 'Amazonian Ethnofuturities' at CRASSH in Cambridge. We look forward to continuing these conversations! @CRASSHlive @Cambridge_Uni crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/45415/

Check out our new edited volume with the IAI in Berlin entitled Sorcery in Amazonia! 👈 You can download a free copy of the book here: publications.iai.spk-berlin.de/receive/iai_mo… SALSA did an excellent post about this! salsa-tipiti.org/new-books-by-s…

Check out the new post that I recently did on the Fifteen Eighty Four blog at Cambridge University Press about my new book, The Shamanism of Eco-Tourism 👈 Send me a DM if you'd like to learn more about the book! cambridgeblog.org/2025/02/the-sh… via @CUPAcademic

Check out my new book with Cambridge University Press on Indigenous eco-tourism and shamanic ontological frameworks in Guyana! cambridge.org/core/books/sha… amazon.com/Shamanism-Eco-…

My new co-authored article "Plant Agency in the Guianas: Attraction, Assault, and Animacy" is now published in early view in the Journal of Ethnobiology! Here is a link to check it out: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11…

The green world

My new book The Shamanism of Eco-Tourism is coming out on 30 November!!! 👈 @CambridgeUP Learn more about how shamanism came to inform Indigenous Makushi practices involving tourism in Guyana! cambridge.org/us/universityp…

First solo book coming out in 2024!!! @CambridgeUP @ccancellaro

So excited to announce that my first solo book The Shamanism of Eco-Tourism: History and Ontology among the Makushi in Guyana will be published in the Cambridge Latin American Studies series later this year! @CambridgeUP cambridge.org/us/universityp…

🎉🎉🎉 NEW ISSUE OUT NOW 🎉🎉🎉 Featuring work by Rocío M. Garcia & @BorgRasmussen, @LourdesAlonsoS1, @J_A_Whitaker, @christian_tym & Silvana Saturno, Jonathan Echeverri Zuluaga & @JTOrdonez, @RocioVeraSantos & more! ToC ⬇️ ⬇️

"I show how villagers conceptualize touristic interactions and work to shift these relations away from the asymmetries often found in tourism through strategies developed during the 'colonial encounter'" — @J_A_Whitaker Read here ⬇️ doi.org/10.1111/jlca.1…

📝 NEW 📝 ~Shamanic alliance in the touristic borderzone: Strategic hospitality at Surama Eco-Lodge in Guyana~ by James Andrew Whitaker (@J_A_Whitaker) Read here⬇️ doi.org/10.1111/jlca.1…

My new article "Shamanic Alliance in the Touristic Borderzone: Strategic Hospitality at Surama Eco-Lodge in Guyana" is now published in early view in the Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology! Here is a link to check it out: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/author/6… @JournalLatin

Proud to be a part of this excellent Open Access e-book on climate and historical ecology. I have a chapter with @ChrisGuiterman and @Tom_Swetnam on Indigenous fire management and fire resilience in AZ and NM but there are many excellent chapters here. taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-edit/…