Crépeau, Robert
Professor
Department of Anthropology
University of Montreal
Canada
Biography
Crépeau, Robert is a Professor, Ph. D. Anthropology, University of Montreal; Postdoctoral fellow: Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC and Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Brazil. Contact : T elephone 514-343-7193 Pav. PAV.M.CARON-L.GROULX-3200 JB \ bur. C-3074 at University of Montreal, Canada.
Research Interest
My main field of interest and research is that of Native American studies and more particularly South-Amerindian. I realized a first field at the Achuar of Peruvian Amazonia and I have since worked with the Kaingang of South Brazil. I am interested in the politico-religious expression of the Amerindian territorial and identity claims. Stories, myths and rites are for me the material of choice to understand and describe the internal logic of the practices of these societies. In recent years, I have published articles on the kaingang dualistic social organization described in the light of their contemporary ritual practices, the practice of shamanism and contemporary Amerindian religious dynamics in a context of religious pluralism.
