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Banner image credit: Painting by the MAHKU collective (Movimento dos Artistas Huni Kuin do Jordão), with authorization from Ibã Huni Kuin

Healing Encounters: Reinventing an indigenous medicine in the clinic and beyond” is a 5-year 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. The project is structured around three sites ("City", "Forest" & "Lab") and three transversal encounters (Materialsemiotic Encounters, Encounters Beyond the Human and Ontological Encounters).

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

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. The thesis represents a contentious interpretation of the law according to which only Indigenous territories proved to have be inhabited by them at the moment of the temporal landmark of 5 October 1988, when the current Constitution was promulgated, are guaranteed Indigenous territories. PL490 explicitly aims to retrogress constitutional protections of Indigenous Territories, making new demarcations unfeasible and threatening the ones already in place, leaving these Indigenous territories even more vulnerable to mining and agrobusiness interests. 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.