Peter Rawitscher, Graduate Student

Anthropology, Sociocultural Anthropology

Research

The construction of indigenous identity and governmentality in Latin America, -Colombia is central to my work. During the fieldwork phase of my dissertation I am centering on linguistic anthropology, visual anthropology and indigenous politics to study community responses to armed violence as a series of linguistic strategies for reframing the grounds opon which meaning is constructed. Other interests include indigenous relationships to nature, urban anthropology and practices of violence in Colombia.