Karen Shiratori

Karen Shiratori is an anthropologist and member of the ECO Project. She is a doctor in anthropology social from the National Museum of Rio de Janeiro and researcher at the Center for Studies Amerindians (CEstA-USP) and the Joint Research Unit “Patrimoines locaux, environment & globalisation” (PALOC-IRD). Her areas of specialization are indigenous ethnology, with a focus on shamanism, political organization and traditional knowledge about agrobiodiversity. She works with the people of Arawa and Tupi Kagwahiva language in the southern Amazon (Brazil). She also develops research on public policies and territorial rights of peoples indigenous people in isolation. She organized and was one of the authors of the book Vegetable Voices: diversity, resistance and stories of the forest (Ediciones UBU, 2021), published in French in 2024.