Ecuador

Professor, Department of Economics, Universidad San Francisco de Quito

Quito, Ecuador

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PhD Candidate in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Kansas

He is a sociocultural anthropologist focused on the ethnology of western Amazonia and the Andes-Amazon interface. Drawing from extensive ethnographic fieldwork in the Peruvian Amazon, his work explores the intersections of technology, kinship, shamanism, and ethnogenesis.

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Representative publications:

Homan, J. (2016). Disentangling the Ayahuasca Boom: Local Impacts in Western Peruvian Amazonia. In B. C. Labate, C. Cavnar, & A. Gearin (Eds.), The World Ayahauasca Diaspora: Reinventions and Controversies (pp. 165-182). London: Routledge.

Homan, J. (2014). La Cordillera Escalera y el pueblo Shawi: Etnohistoria/The Cordillera Escalera and the pueblo Shawi: Ethnohistory.  In N. Pitman, C. Vriesendorp, D. Alvira, J. A. Markel, M. Johnston, E. Ruelas Inzunza, A. Lancha Pizango, G. Sarmiento Valenzuela, P. Álvarez-Loayza, J. Homan, T. Wachter, Á. del Campo, D. F. Stotz, & S. Heilpern (Eds.), Perú: Cordillera Escalera-Loreto. Rapid Biological and Social Inventories Report 26 (pp. 167–175 & 356–363). Chicago, IL: The Field Museum.

Pitman, N., C. Vriesendorp, D. Alvira, J. A. Markel, M. Johnston, E. Ruelas Inzunza, A. Lancha Pizango, G. Sarmiento Valenzuela, P. Álvarez-Loayza, J. Homan, T. Wachter, Á. del Campo, D. F. Stotz, & S. Heilpern (Eds.). (2014). Perú: Cordillera Escalera-Loreto. Rapid Biological and Social Inventories Report 26. Chicago, IL: The Field Museum.

Alvira, D., J. Homan, D. Huayunga, J. J. Inga, A. Lancha Pizango, A. Napo, M. Pariona, P. Ruiz Ojanama, & B. Tapayuri. (2014). Comunidades humanas visitadas: Patrimonio social y cultural/Communities visited: Social and cultural assets. In N. Pitman, C. Vriesendorp, D. Alvira, J. A. Markel, M. Johnston, E. Ruelas Inzunza, A. Lancha Pizango, G. Sarmiento Valenzuela, P. Álvarez-Loayza, J. Homan, T. Wachter, Á. del Campo, D. F. Stotz, & S. Heilpern (Eds.), Perú: Cordillera Escalera-Loreto. Rapid Biological and Social Inventories Report 26 (pp. 175–187, 363–374, & 518–521). Chicago, IL: The Field Museum, Chicago.

Alvira, D., J. Homan, D. Huayunga, J. J. Inga, A. Lancha Pizango, A. Napo, M. Pariona, P. Ruiz Ojanama, & B. Tapayuri. (2014). Patrimonio biocultural del pueblo Shawi: Uso de los recursos naturales, conocimiento ecológico tradicional y calidad de vida/The biocultural heritage of the Shawi people: Use of natural resources, traditional ecological knowledge, and quality of life. In N. Pitman, C. Vriesendorp, D. Alvira, J. A. Markel, M. Johnston, E. Ruelas Inzunza, A. Lancha Pizango, G. Sarmiento Valenzuela, P. Álvarez-Loayza, J. Homan, T. Wachter, Á. del Campo, D. F. Stotz, & S. Heilpern (Eds.), Perú: Cordillera Escalera-Loreto . Rapid Biological and Social Inventories Report 26 (pp. 187–203, 374–389, & 522–527). Chicago, IL: The Field Museum.