Mr Luis Carlos García-Briceño

Mr Luis Carlos García-Briceño

PhD Candidate

Department of Anthropology

Languages
English, Spanish
Key Expertise
Amazonia,Yekwana, perception, Christianity, flows/paths, rhythms/repetition

About me

Research Topic: Amerindian perception and becoming in contexts of conversion to Protestant Christianity

I hold a MSc in Comparative Politics and Conflict Studies from the LSE and a MPhil in Social Anthropology from Oxford University. I have broad experience working with Indigenous groups in the Venezuelan Amazon, particularly among Carib-language speaking peoples – Ye’kwana and E’ñepa. I have done long-term ethnographic work among evangelical indigenous groups in particular. This has involved long periods of participant observation, living and travelling in the Amazon with indigenous churches and communities, as well as linguistic and translation work with indigenous leaders and elders.

Teaching experience: Teaching Assistant in AN100, Michaelmas 2019

Supervisors: Dr. Harry Walker, Prof. Matthew Engelke (Columbia)

Expertise Details

I study indigenous experience and perception of reality; and the construction of these as continuous rhythmic flows that form paths and tubes. And how this changed with conversion to Christianity.