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Dan Rosengren
Researcher
School of Global StudiesAbout Dan Rosengren
I received my Ph.D. in social anthropology at Gothenburg University in 1988 on a thesis concerning notions of politics and leadership among Matsigenka people of the Peruvian Amazon. Between 1989 and 1991 I worked in Angola as a socio-economic advisor at the Ministry of Fisheries’ department for small scale artisanal fisheries and after returning home I was employed by the Swedish National Board of Fisheries as a desk officer at the division for international cooperation (SWEDMAR).
In 1998 I returned to the Department of Social Anthropology where I was employed as a lecturer with special focus on indigenous peoples. I was appointed associate professor in 2005. Between 1996 and 2001 I was member of the international board of IWGIA (International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs). Since 2010 I am member of the board of SALSA (Society for the Anthropology of Lowland South America). I have been engaged by Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Finnish, British, Canadian and USA universities and research organisations to examine and perform evaluations of different kinds and I have performed consultancies for Sida and the Interamerican Development Bank.
Areas of interestTaking my ethnographic point of departure in social and cultural conditions of Matsigenka people of the Peruvian Amazon, among whom I have been working since the end of the 1970s, I have explored a number of different themes. Extensive and externally financed research projects have examined:
- Notions regarding politics and leadership
- Ethno-political expressions and processes
- Everyday realities as described in various cultural registers, mainly myths and other narratives
- The perception of meteorological phenomena
- Notions of poverty and development.
Presently research is focused on the two latter areas of interest. A common denominator in most of my research is the exploration of ontological principles in different systems of knowledge.
Teaching and tutoring Since I started teaching at Gothenburg University in 1978 I have acquired a broad experience from different courses, mainly in social anthropology but I have also been extensively engaged in Latin American regional studies, human ecology, Museion and the multidisciplinary programme of environmental studies. At the School of Global Studies I presently teach a course on the socialization of the physical environment, I am tutor for essays on both the “magister” and master level and I am supervisor for a number of doctoral candidates. Presently I also teach at the Universidad Mayor de San Andrés, La Paz, Bolivia, where I teach courses in qualitative research methodology for students at the departments of anthropology and of sociology and for master and doctoral students at the interdisciplinary research institute (CIDES) associated to the university.
Field work experienceOn and of among Matsigenka people since the end of the 1970s.
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The Anthropocene narrative and Amerindian lifeworlds: anthropos, agency, and
personhood
Dan Rosengren, Stefan Permanto, Anders Burman
Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute - 2023 -
Ináenka y la viruela: nociones de epidemias entre gente
matsigenka.
Dan Rosengren
Las enfermedades que llegan de lejos. Los pueblos amazónicos del Perú frente a las epidemias del pasado y a la COVID-19. - 2022 -
There's Something in the Air - But What? On Amazon People's Perception of Atmospheric
Phenomena.
Dan Rosengren
The Anthroposcene of Weather and Climate. Ethnographic Contributions to the Climate Change Debate - 2021 -
Animism och kosmologi i
Amazonas
Dan Rosengren
Religionkunskapsämnet i fokus - utmaningar och möjligheter. - 2019 -
Science, Knowledge and Belief. On Local Understandings of Weather and Climate Change in
Amazonia.
Dan Rosengren
Ethnos - 2018 -
The Fashion of Politics and the Politics of Fashion. On indigenous modernities and Matsigenka
struggles.
Dan Rosengren
Indigenous Modernities in South America - 2018 -
Marriage Matsigenka Style: Some Critical Reflections on Theories of Marriage
Practices
Dan Rosengren
The Anthropology of Marriage in Lowland South America. Bending and Breaking the Rules. - 2017 -
Being and Becoming: On Conditions of Existence in the
Amazon
Dan Rosengren
Tipití. Journal of the Society for the Anthropology of Lowland South America. - 2015 -
Sharing, Sociality, and Stratification. Exchange and Godparentage in the
Amazon
Dan Rosengren
Anthropos: Internationale Zeitschrift für Völker- und Sprachenkunde - 2014 -
Seriously Laughing: On Paradoxes of Absurdity among Matsigenka
People
Dan Rosengren
Ethnos - 2010 -
Människans
livsvärldar
Dan Rosengren
2010 -
To Cultivate and Control White People: Compadrazgo among Matsigenka
Perople
Dan Rosengren
Acta Americana - 2009 -
Matsigenka Grannies are no Nannies - reflections on intergenerational relations and the organisation of
labour.
Dan Rosengren
Presented at 53rd International Congress of Americanists, Mexico City. - 2009 -
The Taming of the
White.
Dan Rosengren
Presented at the 53rd International Congress of Americanists, Mexico City. - 2009 -
How Matsigenka people think of God for example. On alterity and cosmological
consistency.
Dan Rosengren
Presented at 1st Meeting of the Nordic Network for Amerindian Studies, Copenhagen. - 2008 -
Religious conversion and cosmological consistency: On Matsigenka
Christianity
Dan Rosengren
SALSA Fifth Sesquiannual Meeting, Oxford, England, 17-20 juni, 2008 - 2008 -
Corporeidade matsigenka: uma realidade não biológica. Sobre nocões de consciência e a constituicão da
identidade.
Dan Rosengren
Revista de Antropologia - 2007 -
Ursprungsfolk i Latinamerika riskerar att förlora sina egna språk och många saknar demokratisk
delaktighet
Dan Rosengren
Anförande vid Bok- och Biblioteksmässan i Göteborg 2006-09-06 - 2006 -
Negotiatin marriages - on Matsigenka marriage
practices
Dan Rosengren
Anförande vid 52nd International Congress of Americanists, Seville, Spain - 2006 -
Transdimensional relations: on human-spirit interaction in the
Amazon
Dan Rosengren
Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute - 2006 -
Paradoxes of community? Intimacy and the political - som preliminary reflections on Matsigenka notions of
sociality
Dan Rosengren
Anförande vid 52nd International Congressof Americanists. Seville, Spain - 2006 -
Review of: Cipolletti, Maria Susana (ed), Los mundos de abajo y los mundos de arriba. Individuo y sociedad en las tierras bajas, en los Andes y más
allá
Dan Rosengren
Anthropos - 2006 -
Matsigenka Corporeality, a Nonbiological
Reality
Dan Rosengren
Tipití. Journal of the Society for the Anthropology of Lowland South America - 2006 -
Los
Matsigenka
Dan Rosengren
2005 -
Concepciones de trabajo y relaciones sociales en el uso de la tierra entre los Machiguenga del Alto
Urubamba.
Dan Rosengren
El rostro amazónico del Cusco. Red. Silva Guerra, Giovanna & Alfredo Ugarte Vega Centeno - 2005 -
Espacio y el Otro: Nuevos conceptos de territorialidad entre los Matsiguenka del Alto
Urubamba
Dan Rosengren
Anförande vid IV Congreso Nacional en Atropologia, Lima 1-6 augusti - 2005 -
Matsigenka corporeality: a non-biological reality. On notions of consciousness and the constitution of
identity
Dan Rosengren
Anförande vid konferensen In the World and About the World. "Amerindian" Modes of Knowledge, at University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Va. USA. 28-29 November - 2005 -
Review of: Johnson, Allen W., Families of the
forest
Dan Rosengren
Anthropos - 2004 -
To set the rules of the game: on bureaucratic ontology, land titling and indigenous peoples of the Peruvian
Amazon.
Dan Rosengren
Paper presented at workshop on Communal Sovereignty in the Era of Globalization: a view from Latin America. - 2003 -
Laughing Seriously: On paradoxes of
absurdity.
Dan Rosengren
Paper presented the 51st International Congress of Americanists, Santiago, Chile. - 2003 -
The collective self and the ethno-political movement: "rhizomes" and "taproots" in the
Amazon
Dan Rosengren
Identities: Global studies in culture and power - 2003 -
Cultivating Spirits: On Matsigenka Notions of Shamanism and Medicine (and the Resilience of an Indigenous System of
Knowledge)
Dan Rosengren
Anales Nueva Época - 2002 -
Indigenous peoples of the Andean countries as target group for development
cooperation
Dan Rosengren
2002 -
On 'indigenous' identities: Reflections on a
debate
Dan Rosengren
Anthropology Today - 2002 -
Sydamerikanskt
hattmode
Dan Rosengren
Populär Historia - 2001 -
The delicacy of community: On kisagantsi in Matsigenka narrative
discourse
Dan Rosengren
Overing & Pases (eds.), The antropology of love and anger: The aesthetics of conviviality in the Amazon - 2000 -
Matsigenka Notions of Self and Other: Consequences for the Ethno-Political
Movement.
Dan Rosengren
Conference on Reconsidering Arawakan Histories. Panama City. - 2000 -
Matsigenka myth and morality: Notions of the social and the
asocial
Dan Rosengren
Ethnos - 1998 -
História y Representividad en la Política
Matsigenka.
Dan Rosengren
Paper presented at 49th International Congress of Americanists, Quito, Ecuador. - 1997 -
La Agencia Sueca para el Desarrollo Internacional y los pueblos
indígenas.
Dan Rosengren
Guía para Pueblos Indígenas, red. Lydia van der Fliert - 1997 -
Conflict and cohesion - planned social change and visions of community among the Matsigenka of the Peruvian
Amazon.
Dan Rosengren
Paper presented at workshop on The rhetoric of indigenous organizations: portrayals of personhood and community in exchanges with the nation state, St.Andrews, Scotland. - 1996 -
Review of C.Slater, Dance of the Dolphin: Transformation and Disenchantment in the Amazonian
Imagination.
Dan Rosengren
Ethnos - 1995 -
Review of S.Nugent, Amazonian Caboclo Society: An Essay on Invisibility and Peasant
Economy.
Dan Rosengren
Ethnos - 1995 -
Matsigenka, Territory and Notions of the Other. Conceptual contradictions and current
conflicts.
Dan Rosengren
Paper presented at 48th International Congress of Americanists, Uppsala. - 1994 -
Review of J.Rappaport, The Politics of Memory: Native Historical Interpretation in the Colombian
Andes.
Dan Rosengren
Ethnos - 1991 -
Review of R.Gippelhauser & E.Mader, Die Achuara-Jivaro: Wirtschaftliche und soziale Organisationsformen am peruanischen
Amazonas.
Dan Rosengren
Ethnos - 1991 -
Suicide, Durkheim and the
Matsigenka.
Dan Rosengren
On the Meaning of Death: Essays on Mortuary Rituals and Eschatological Beliefs. red. S.Cederroth, C.Corlin & J.Lindström - 1988 -
In the eyes of the beholder: Leadership and the social construction of power and dominance among the Matsi–genka of the Peruvian
Amazon
Dan Rosengren
1987 -
Concepciones del trabajo y las relaciones sociales del uso de la tierra entre los Machiguenga del Alto
Urubamba
Dan Rosengren
Amazonía Peruana - 1987 -
Hunting and gender complementarity among the
Matsigenka.
Dan Rosengren
Annals of Gothenburg Ethnographical Museum 1985-1986. - 1987 -
Matsigenka social organization as expressed in their settlement
pattern.
Dan Rosengren
Natives and Neighbours in Indigenous South America, red. H.Skar & F.Salomon - 1987 -
Indianer och vita: en ojämn
kamp.
Dan Rosengren
Kulturen i Latinamerika - 1984 -
Proximity and Interaction: The Case of the Matsigenka of the Upper Urubamba, Southeastern
Peru.
Dan Rosengren
Annals of Gothenburg Ethnographical Museum 1981-1982 - 1983