Alcida Rita Ramos

Alcida Rita Ramos is professor of anthropology at the University of Brasilia. She has defended indigenous peoples, particularly Yanomami, acting as expert witness to the Brazilian Attorney General's Office and as mediator between the Sanum� and emergency medical teams working to combat epidemic malaria. She is the author of Sanum� Memories: Yanomami Ethnography in Times of Crisis , also published by the University of Wisconsin Press, and two other books.

Alcida Rita Ramos is professor of anthropology at the University of Brasilia. She has defended indigenous peoples, particularly Yanomami, acting as expert witness to the Brazilian Attorney General's Office and as mediator between the Sanum� and emergency medical teams working to combat epidemic malaria. She is the author of Sanum� Memories: Yanomami Ethnography in Times of Crisis , also published by the University of Wisconsin Press, and two other books. See less