The Lelong Bequest grants are intended to finance social anthropological research into the cultures of the Peruvian Amazon and adjacent regions. In keeping with the wishes of Bernard Lelong, an amateur anthropologist and generous patron of scientific research, the CNRS Foundationtogether with the CNRS Institut des Sciences Humaines et Sociales, provides funding for these projects.
Following the “Legs Lelong en anthropologie sociale 2024” call for projects, the Legs Lelong Scientific Council, chaired by Jean-Pierre Chaumeil and Alexandre Surrallés, scientific secretaries, met in October 2024 to select the recipients of funding, either for fieldwork expenses for PhD students, post-docs and researchers, or to finance stays in France by young PhD students, post-docs and researchers in a laboratory.
The 2024 winners are :
- Alice BERIOT is a doctoral student in anthropology at EHESS. Her research concerns the evolution of the political organization of communities of the Murui indigenous people, living on either side of the Peruvian-Colombian border.
- Raphaël COLLIAUX is an anthropologist with a doctorate in sociology from the EHESS and a research associate at the Institut Français d’Etudes Andines in Lima and the Centre de Recherche et de Documentation sur les Amériques. His project focuses on transmission and the problem of temporality among the Matsigenka.
- Gabriel CROVETTO EFFIO is a doctoral student in anthropology at EHESS. His research focuses on the webs of trust: history, otherness and formal friendship among the Chapra of the Lower Morona (Peruvian Amazon).
- Elena PERINO is a doctoral student in social anthropology and ethnology at EHESS. Her research concerns the evangelization process and conversion dynamics among the Aents Chicham (Ecuadorian Amazon).
- Alejandro PRIETO is a musicologist and ethnolinguist, and a doctoral student in Amazonian Studies at the National University of Colombia in Leticia. His research focuses on lullabies and verbal art for children among the Tikuna Magüta (Peru-Colombia border).
- Marco RAMIREZ COLOMBIER is a doctoral student in anthropology at the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru. His project focuses on the Tupi-speaking Cocama in Peru and Colombia.
- Luis Alberto VARGAS HELM is a doctoral student at EHESS and the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru. His research concerns the Arakmbut, an indigenous people of the Peruvian Amazon (Madre de Dios region).
Congratulations to the winners!
* More information on the Charlie Hamilton James photo on thededicated article published on the National Geographic website.
