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College of Arts and Sciences

Dr. Gabriel Torrealba

Assistant Professor
Sociology and Anthropology
Office
SCH Schroeder Hall 345
Office Hours
Friday 10 am-12 pm
Office Phone
(309) 438-5947office
phone
Email
getorr1@ilstu.eduemail
Website
https://ilstu.academia.edu/GabrielT... website
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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

403.001Advanced Latin America In Ethnographic Perspective

176.001Culture, Power, And Civic Life

400.005Independent Study In Anthropology

303.001Latin 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).

PhD Anthropology

Southern Illinois University Carbondale
Carbondale, IL

Journal Article

Torrealba, G., Navas Mendez, A., Scaramelli, F., & Scaramelli, K. Ethnography In‐Sight: Nation‐Making Objects.. The Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology (2022)
Torrealba, G., Navas Méndez, A., Scaramelli, F., & Scaramelli, K.   Ethnography In‐Sight: Nation‐Making Objects. The Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology 26.3-4 (2022): 378-385.
Torrealba, G., & Navas Méndez, A. Bolivar's Sword: The Mapoyo and the Politics of Heritage‐Making in Venezuela. The Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology 26.3-4 (2021): 386-407.
Torrealba, G., & Navas Mendez, A. Bolivar’s Sword: The Mapoyo and the Politics of Heritage-Making in Venezuela.. Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology (2021)
Torrealba, G., & Scaramelli, F. Las estaciones sarrapieras: los Mapoyo y las economías extractivas del Orinoco Medio, Venezuela. Boletim do Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi. Ciências Humanas 13.2 (2018): 293-314.