Dr. George Mentore

George Mentore (University of Virginia) is a cultural anthropologist whose research interests are in Amazonian and Caribbean studies and the anthropology of knowledge. He is the author of Of Passionate Curves and Desirable Cadences: Themes on Waiwai Social Being (University of Nebraska Press, 2005), and Abandoned People, Madness, and the Untranslatable (Centre for Amerindian, Latin American and Caribbean Studies, University of St. Andrews Occasional Publications No.32, 2011).


Books by George Mentore

Decolonial Futures for Amazonian and Andean Anthropologies

Edited by Sonia Alconini, Kylie Quave & George Mentore | Forthcoming

This volume explores the futures and possibilities of engaged anthropological research for and with indigenous communities. Collectively, the authors, including anthropologists and archaeologists working in the Andes and Amazon, argue that to develop sustainable and…









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