Evelyn Anca

PhD Candidate, Department of Anthropology 

Evelyn (Evi) works at the intersection of ethnoprimatology, multispecies anthropology, and Indigenous studies. Her research explores human-primate relations among Indigenous Shipibo communities in the Peruvian Amazon, examining how these are shaped through everyday interactions, traditional practices, cosmology, colonial histories and ongoing socioecological change. Bridging anthropology and primatology, her PhD project integrates ethnographic and ecological methods to better understand the context of human primate relations and to inform more inclusive and equitable approaches to research and biodiversity conservation in dialogue with Indigenous knowledge systems. Evi has worked with conservation NGOs in the Amazon and in Israel on community-based conservation, environmental education, illegal wildlife trade and environmental policy. She also works on the topic of plastic pollution and its impacts on wildlife, ecosystems, and human communities, a growing crisis in the Amazon and globally, disproportionately affecting Indigenous and marginalised communities.

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