“Healing Encounters: Reinventing an indigenous medicine in the clinic and beyond” was an ERC-funded anthropological research project based at the CERMES3 (the Centre de recherche, médecine, sciences, santé, santé mentale, société) and headed by Dr Emilia Sanabria that ran between 2018 and 2024. It was structured around three ideal-type sites ("City", "Forest" & "Lab") and three transversal "encounters" (Materialsemiotic Encounters, Encounters Beyond the Human and Ontological Encounters).

The project's main ethnographic sites were in South America (Peru, Brazil), Europe (Netherlands, Italy, Spain) and North America. In addition, HealingEncounters developed collaborations with: 

• the biomedia speculative art-science research and mediation centre UrsuLab in Bourges, France https://antrepeaux.net/en/lieux/ursulab/
• the Shipibo healing and research centre ShipiboRao directed by Maestro José Lopez Sanchez in the Ucayali, Peru https://shipiborao.com 
• the Indigenous collective MAHKU (the Mouvement of Huni Kuin Contemporary Artists) in Acre, Brazil 

Healing Encounters expresses its support to the historic Indigenous "Struggle for life" mobilisations across Brazil. These mobilizations contest the PL490 Bill and its marco temporal thesis, defended by agro-industrial lobbies. More information on this campaign can be accessed on the website of APIB (Articulation of Indigenous Peoples of Brazil) and on their social networks (@Instagram, @Facebook e @Twitter).

Funded by the European Union (European Research Council, ERC-2017-STG-757589-HealingEncounters). Views and opinions expressed are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Research Council Executive Agency.