Glenn H. Shepard Jr., Ph.D.

Glenn H. Shepard Jr., Ph.D, is an anthropologist, filmmaker and tenured staff researcher in the Human Sciences Division at the Goeldi Museum in Belém, Brazil. He sits on Chacruna’s Advisory Board.

Recent Posts by Author

Agony and Ecstasy in the Amazon: Tobacco and the hummingbird shamans of Peru

In this feature, Glenn H. Shepard Jr. provides a colorful, detailed account of his experience...

Toé (Brugmansia suaveolens): The Path of Day and Night

The Path of Day Henchi, a young man from a remote Matsigenka native community in...

Fifty Shades of Green

The tragic death from coronavirus of indigenous actor Antonio Bolivar, star of the Oscar-nominated film...

Coronavirus, Self-Isolation, and the Pragmatic Fatalism of Indigenous Peoples

We usually think about the medical systems of indigenous people in terms of plants, rituals,...

Voluntary Isolation in the Age of Coronavirus

While such drastic measures of social distancing are novel and challenging in our hyper-connected contemporary...

Gift of the Spider Woman: Spinning, weaving and womanhood among the Matsigenka of Peru

“Shamans say these geometric designs were obtained from the Sangariite guardian spirits who appear in...

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