Professor for Social and Cultural Anthropology at the Philipps-Universität Marburg, Germany. He has extensively researched Carib and Chibchan-speaking groups in northern South America and southern Central America, especially among the Yukpa (Venezuela/Columbia). His research interests include post-natural anthropology, anthropology of conflict, Indigenous modernities, and transformation processes of world conceptions and social relations. Among his recent books are “Creation and Creativity in Indigenous Lowland South America” edited with Anne Goletz (2023), “Amerindian Socio-Cosmologies between the Andes, Amazonia and Mesoamerica: Toward an Anthropological Understanding of the Isthmo-Colombian Area” (2020) and “Indigenous Modernities in South America” (2018).

Doctoral candidate at the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology at the Philipps-Universität Marburg. In his PhD, he is working with the Harakbut people to discuss their self-determination ontologically. He asks what role REDD+ Indigena Amazonico, the counter-proposal to the global conservation initiative REDD+, plays in this. His broader interests include solution mechanisms in the context of climate change, conservation and the rights of nature. Alessio studied Social and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Vienna (BA), at the University of Leiden (MA) and for a trimester at URACCAN (University of the Autonomous Regions of the Nicaraguan Caribbean Coast).

Researcher at the Philipps-Universität Marburg since 2013. She is a social and cultural anthropologist involved in research projects on graphic communication systems in the Indigenous Americas and the everyday relevance of narratives. She has specialised in trans-specific communication. Since 2014, she has researched and collaborated with the Indigenous Sokorhpa-Yukpa in Colombia. Her research interests include local knowledge systems, relationships between human and more-than-human beings, the Isthmo-Colombian Area, and ethnolinguistic and collaborative methods. Her latest publication is “The Maize Bringer’s Creative Potentials” (2023).