Faculty
Robin M. Wright
Associate Professor of Religion
Ph.D. Stanford University
Indigenous Religions, Amerindian Religions of South America, Anthropology of Religion
Office: 107 Anderson Hall
Phone: (352) 392-1625
Email: rowrightrobin@yahoo.com
Robin M. Wright is Associate Professor specializing in
South American indigenous religions, Anthropology of
Religion, and Indigenous Religions in general. For 20
years, Dr. Wright was Professor of Anthropology at the
State University of Campinas in Brazil where he was
also Director of the Center for the Study of
Indigenous Ethnology. His principal research since the
1970s has been in the Brazilian Northwest Amazon,
although he has done work in Guatemala and the
Northeastern US (Six Nations). He has published widely
in the area of indigenous religions, indigenous
histories and indigenist policies. Among his most
important works are a three-volume study of indigenous
peoples and Christianity in Brazil; two ethnographies
of the histories and religions of the indigenous
peoples of the Northwest Amazon; a collection of
mythic narratives of the Baniwa Indians; and a
co-edited volume on assault sorcery in Amazonia. He
has published over fifty articles and chapters in
books and, since 1980, has collaborated with
non-governmental organizations in Brazil and the US
working on behalf of indigenous rights.
His collection of
materials and his
curriculum vitae are also available for review.
