Carlos David Londoño Sulkin

Biography

I am fascinated by people's moral and aesthetic evaluations: their talk and other expressions concerning what they esteem or despise in human subjectivity and action. In my research and writing I address how social life shapes individuals' moralities and understandings of themselves, and in turn how individuals interacting with each other create social life and reproduce and transform these moralities and understandings. I have carried out ethnographic fieldwork among People of the Center (Colombian Amazon) since 1993, mainly with Muinane-speaking clans. In recent years I've broadened my ethnographic interests to address the moralities of an African American woman and of a Colombian science writer. I teach the following courses in the Department of Anthropology's undergraduate program: Introduction to Anthropology, The Anthropology of Language, The Anthropology of Personhood, Ethnographic Fieldwork Methods, The Ethnography of Amazonia, and The Anthropology of Contemporary Human Problems. At the graduate level, I've taught advanced courses on key debates in the anthropological study of indigenous Amazonian peoples, and courses on selfhood and morality. From 2017 till 2020 I will be president of the Society for the Anthropology of Lowland South America, and faculty representative to the University of Regina's Board of Governors.

Research Interest

The anthropology of morality, performativity, contingency, indigenous Amazonia.