Eliane Fernades Ferreira

About

Eliane is an anthropologist and has worked since 2004 with the Ashaninka people of the Amônia River, in Brazil, near the Peruvian border. In Germany she has published numerous books and articles on the situation of indigenous Brazilians. For her engagement for the rights of Brazilian indigenous Peoples Eliane received in October 2013, in Germany, the title of honorary member of the Society for Threatened Peoples (Gesellschaft für bedrohte Völker). From 2011 to 2017 she worked as a researcher and lecturer at the Department of Anthropology and Cultural Research, University of Bremen, Germany. In the end of 2017 she worked as a government assistant for the Ashaninka mayor of the town of Marechal Thaumaturgo, Isaac Piyãko.

Experience

• Advisor at Gesellschaft für bedrohte Völker (GfbV)
  Jan 2022 - Present · 4 yrs 7 mos

• Scientific Officer at University of Hamburg
  Nov 2018 - Present · 7 yrs 9 mos

  Collaboration at the Project "ARTISTIC – Valorization of Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH) Assets for local sustainable development in CE Regions"

• Board Of Advisors at Yorenka Tasorentsi Institute
  Jul 2018 - Present · 8 yrs 1 mo

• Executive Coordinator at Associação Ashaninka do Rio Amônia Apiwtxa
  Apr 2021 - Jan 2022 · 10 mos

• Lecturer and Researcher at Institut für Ethnologie und Kulturwissenschaft - Universität Bremen
  Dec 2011 - Sep 2017 · 5 yrs 10 mos