Chaumeil Jean-pierre
Ethnology
Laboratory of Ethnology and Comparative Sociology (LESC)
France
Biography
Jean-Pierre Chaumeil has been working in the Peruvian Amazon (and more marginally in the Colombian Amazon) since 1971. He abandoned technology studies at the Institut universitaire de Ville d’Avray to specialise in anthropology at the EHESS (l’École des hautes études en sciences sociales / School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences). There he obtained a degree in 1975, and in 1983 completed a PhD thesis in social anthropology and ethnology on the shamanism of the Yagua people (Peruvian Amazon) under the supervision of Simone Dreyfus-Gamelon (published in 1983 by Éditions de l’EHESS).
Research Interest
Comparative shamanism, anthropology of borders, political anthropology, Amazonian ethnohistory, religious dynamics, American Indian evangelical churches and messianic cults, ethnomusicology, construction of Americanism
Publications
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2011 eds (with O. Espinosa and M. Cornejo), Por donde hay soplo. Estudios amazonicos en los Paises andinos (Lima, IFEA-PUCP-CAAAP-EREA/LESC).
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2012, Estudios de chamanismo en la Amazonia, in C. I. Degregori, P. Sendon and P. Sendoval (eds), No hay Pais mas diverso: Compendio de AntropologÃa peruana II (Lima, Instituto de Estudios Peruanos): 411–432.
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2012 eds (with J. M. Delgado Estrada), Atlas geográfico del Perú (Lima, Institut français d’études andines/Ambassade de France au Pérou/Universidad nacional mayor de San Marcos/Facultad de Ciencias Sociales) [1st ed. 1865].
