Eliane Fernandes Ferreira

Eliane Fernandes Ferreira (PhD), born 1971, is anthropologist and worked as researcher at the Department of Anthropology and Cultural Research at the University of Bremen in Germany. She studied the perception of environment and nature among citizens of the Upper Juruá River, near the Peruvian border in Brazil. She conducted research in traditional cosmological indigenous knowledge, the use of natural resources among the different groups of citizens of the Brazilian town of Marechal Thaumaturgo, and environment protection and degradation. Her past work sought to research the importance of internet among the Brazilian indigenous peoples. She studied Cultural and Social Anthropology at the University of Hamburg, and obtained a PhD from the University of Bremen in 2007.

transcript-Publications in the Research Fields: Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology, Non-European Ethnology

Publications in the Series: MedienWelten

Web: www.elianefernandes.net