Paolo Fortis

Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology

Paolo Fortis is an Associate Professor in the Anthropology Department at Durham University. He holds a PhD in Social Anthropology from the University of St Andrews and has conducted fieldwork with Guna people from the San Blas Archipelago of Panama over the past sixteen years. His research and publications deal with Amerindian visual and material cultures, notions of the person, ecology, cosmology, and more recently time and history. He is author of Kuna Art and Shamanism: an Ethnographic Approach (University of Texas Press) and co-editor of Time and its Object: Amerindian and Melanesian Perspectives on the Temporality of Images (Routledge). He is currently finishing a monograph titled Figurations of Time: the Visual and the Material in an Amerindian Historical Experience (University of Nebraska Press). He has conducted research at and collaborated with ethnographic and art museums and was editor of the Anthropology of Art Publication Series of the Royal Anthropological Institute.

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