Henyo T Barretto Filho

I am a 56-year-old Social Anthropologist born in Pará, one of the Amazonian states of Brazil. I have a Doctoral Degree in Social Anthropology from the State University of São Paulo (2001) and more than 20 years of university teaching experience, advising students (both undergraduate, and graduate), and conducting research on ethnology, interethnic relations and environmental issues at the Department of Social Sciences of the University of Amazonas-Ufam (1990-1994) and at the Department of Anthropology of the University of Brasília-UnB (1994-2006). My research on the Northeast semi-arid region of Brazil and the Amazon provided me first-hand knowledge of social and environmental trends and problems in both regions. I acted as member of the Commission of Indigenous Affairs (1992-1994; 1998-2002, 2017-2018), and Secretary elect (2002-2004) of the Brazilian Association of Anthropology (ABA), as well as several other professional societies, non-governmental organizations, foundations and government boards, such as the FUNAI’s Indigenist Council and IBAMA’s National Council of Conservation Units. From 2005 to 2016 I was Academic Director and Program Manager at IEB, a Brasília based NGO, responsible for managing its grants/scholarships and courses under the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation Andes-Amazon Initiative for five years. At IEB I also coordinated a series of capacity-building initiatives targeted at indigenous peoples’ organizations on themes such as project management, advocacy, public policies, territorial management and participatory mapping under several individual and collective projects with various partners. During this period, I aldo joined the faculty - as a collaborator - of the Professional Masters in Sustainability Alongise Traditional Peoples and Lands of the Center for Sustainable Development of UnB. In August 2016, through a public contest, I returned to the Department of Anthropology of UnB, where I now regularly perform teaching, research and extension activities. I have experience in the areas of Anthropology and Environmental Sciences, with emphasis on interethnic relations, political ecology, environmental and indigenist public policies, and intercultural perspectives in education, working mainly in the following subjects: indigenous peoples, indigenist and environmental policies, protected areas, territorial and environmental management.