Research areas
James Andrew Whitaker (Ph.D. Anthropology, Tulane University) is an Honorary Research Fellow in Social Anthropology at the University of ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø and a Post-Doctoral Researcher at the CNRS (USR 3456, LEEISA) in Cayenne, French Guiana. He has conducted fieldwork with Indigenous communities (primarily Makushi and Akawaio) in Guyana and archival research in the UK, US, and Guyana. His work centres around ethnohistory, historical ecology, and ontologies in Amazonia.
He is currently in the process of expanding his ethnographic work to West Africa (primarily Liberia) and will be conducting new fieldwork there during the summer of 2022.
He is working on a book and two edited volumes.
Selected publications
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Whitaker, J. A., 2025, Sorcery in Amazonia: A Comparative Exploration of Magical Assault. Ibero - Amerikanisches Institut
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
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Whitaker, J. A. (Editor) & Harris, M. (Editor), 1 Oct 2025, Tucson: University of Arizona Press. 190 p.
Research output: Book/Report › Book
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Whitaker, J. A., 2025, Indigenous Alliance Making: Histories of Agency in Colonial Lowland South America. Whitaker, J. A. & Harris, M. (eds.). Tucson: University of Arizona Press
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
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Open access
Whitaker, J. A. & Daly, L., 10 Dec 2025, In: Folklore. 136, 4, p. 759-781 23 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Open access
Whitaker, J. A. (Editor), Lewy, M. (Editor) & Janik, T. (Editor), 11 Feb 2025, Berlin: Ibero - Amerikanisches Institut. 244 p. (Biblioteca antropológica Americana; vol. 1)
Research output: Book/Report › Book
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Open access
Whitaker, J. A. & Cooper, D. G., 30 Dec 2025, In: Journal of the Anthropological Society of Oxford. 17, p. 23-44 22 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Whitaker, J. A., 6 Feb 2025, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Cambridge Latin American Studies)
Research output: Book/Report › Book
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Whitaker, J. A., Tamboli, V., Daly, L. & Lewy, M., 1 Dec 2024, In: Journal of Ethnobiology. 44, 4, p. 247-359
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Open access
Whitaker, J. A., 19 Mar 2024, In: The Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology . 29, 1, p. 38-49 12 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Open access
Whitaker, J. A. (Editor), Armstrong, C. G. (Editor) & Odonne, G. (Editor), 17 Aug 2023, Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge Taylor & Francis Group. 248 p. (New frontiers in historical ecology)
Research output: Book/Report › Book