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 176.001 Culture, Power, And Civic Life
ANT 400.005 Independent Study In Anthropology
ANT 210.001 Utopias and Dystopias: Indigenous Latin America
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).