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- Stefan Permanto
Stefan Permanto
Om Stefan Permanto
- Researcher
- Ph.D Social Anthropology 2015
Areas of interest
Latin America, Indigenous studies, cosmology/ontology, ritual practice, religion, climate change, environmental anthropology, sustainability, social integration, etc.
I have completed one previous research project funded by the Swedish Research Council (Indigenous Peoples and Climate Change: Epistemological Conflicts in Latin America). Regionally my research focus is located among Maya people in Guatemala and Belize.
Current research
Negotiating the Middle Ground: Indigenous Cosmopolitical Brokerage in Latin America
This is a four-year long (2020-2024) anthropological research project funded by the Swedish Research Council conducted in collaboration with two colleagues at the School of Global Studies.
Teaching experience
I have through the years been course coordinator and lecturer in several courses at the School of Global Studies (Global Studies, Latin American Studies, Social Anthropology, Human Ecology, etc.) as well as tutoring students on bachelor levels.
Field experience
Starting in 2004, divided into several trips, I have conducted field research in Guatemala and Belize for a total amount of time of around 17 months.
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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 -
The End of Days: Climate Change, Mythistory, and Cosmological Notions of
Regeneration
Stefan Permanto
Indigenous Perceptions of the End of the World: Creating a Cosmopolitics of Change - 2019 -
The Social Force of Mountains and Men: Weather and Ritual
Practice
Stefan Permanto
The 9th international conference by the Nordic Latin American Research Network (NOLAN), School of Global Studies, University of Gothenburg. June 15-17 - 2017 -
Becoming and Being: Development and the logic of sociability in Q'eqchi' Maya
lifeworlds
Stefan Permanto
The 77th annual meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology, Santa Fe, NM, USA. March 28 - April 1 - 2017 -
Religion, klimatförändringar och eko-kosmisk
balans
Stefan Permanto
FLR årsbok, årg. 49: Ursprungsfolkens religion - perspektiv på kontinuitet och förändring - 2017 -
"We are awaiting our deaths, this is the end of days": Q'eqchi' Maya notions of Climate
Change
Stefan Permanto
Anthropology, Weather and Climate Change Conference, British Museum, London. May 27-29 - 2016 -
Ontological Discrepancies: Alternative Notions of Deforestation and Climate
Change
Stefan Permanto
Anthropology, Weather and Climate Change Conference, British Museum, London, UK. May 27-29 - 2016 -
Revisiting drivers for Environmental Migration in
Africa
Gunilla Almered Olsson, Shivcharn Dhillion, Kenneth Hermele, Stefan Permanto, Andreas Godsäter
Deveopment Research Conference 2016. August 22-24, Stockholm University - 2016 -
Indigenous perspectives on deforestation and climate change in the
Anthropocene
Stefan Permanto
Sveriges antropologförbunds (SANT) konferens, School of Global Studies, University of Gothenburg, April 21 - 2016 -
The Elders and the Hills: Animism and Cosmological Re-Creation among the Q'eqchi' Maya in Chisec,
Guatemala
Stefan Permanto
2015 -
Transdimensional encounters with the
Tzuultaq'a
Stefan Permanto
Congreso internacional de Mayistas, Mexico City, Mexico. August 8-13. - 2010 -
To Feed and Being Fed: The Shared Responsibilities of Upholding Cosmic Balance and
Regeneration
Stefan Permanto
53rd International Congress of the Americanists. 24-29/7, Mexico City - 2009 -
To Feed and Being Fed: A Matter of Matter and
Spirit
Stefan Permanto
Acta Americana - 2009 -
The moral order of reciprocity and the power of mountain
spirits
Stefan Permanto
1st international conference of the Nordic Network for Amerindian Studies (NETINDIS), Copehagen, Denmark. November 10-11 - 2008 -
The Elders and the Mountains: Transdimensional Encounters with the Q'eqchi' Mountain
Spirits
Stefan Permanto
CHOTRO: Indigenous Peoples in the Post-Colonial World. 2-5 Januari, New Delhi, India - 2008 -
The Body of a Spirit: Reflections of Power in the Sacred Landscape of the
Q’eqchi’-Maya
Stefan Permanto
SANT, Uppsala 23-24 mars, 2007 - 2007 -
De heliga bergens land: Uppfattningar om land bland Q'eqchi'-Maya i
Guatemala
Stefan Permanto
Fjärde Världen - 2006 -
Bergens föränderliga skepnad: Om drömmar och bergsandar bland Q'eqchi'-Maya i
Guatemala
Stefan Permanto
Jordens Folk - Etnografisk Revy - 2006