Dr. Gabriel Torrealba
- About
- Education
- Selected Research
Biography
Dr. Gabriel Torrealba Alfonzo is a cultural anthropologist from Venezuela. He obtained his PhD from Southern Illinois University-Carbondale in 2023, and previously, a master’s degree from the Venezuelan Institute for Scientific Research (2012) and a bachelor’s from the Central University of Venezuela (2007).
Current Courses
ANT 403.001 Advanced Latin America In Ethnographic Perspective
ANT 176.001 Culture, Power, And Civic Life
ANT 210.001 Indigenous South America
ANT 303.001 Latin America In Ethnographic Perspective
Teaching Interests & Areas
Culture and Power, Economic Anthropology, South American Indigenous Politics, Amazonian Ethnographies, Introduction to Cultural Anthropology, Anthropology and Historicities, Anthropology of Media.
Research Interests & Areas
Indigenous worlds, aesthetics, social theory, media-making, Indigeneity, historicity, cosmopolitics, musicalizations, political economy, extractivism, heritage, nationalism, Amazonia (Peru and Venezuela).