Pilar Larreamendy

(Bogota, ?)

Anthropologist trained at the Pontifical Catholic University of Ecuador. He obtained a master's degree in Development and Environment from Cambridge in 1996 and a PhD in Human Geography from the same institution in 2003, with research on development and environmental rights of indigenous peoples. He has worked with NGOs on issues of culture, indigenous socio-political development and the environment. Most of these projects have been carried out in the Ecuadorian Amazon with the Shuar group, an ancestral pioneer community in the formation of the indigenous movement in Ecuador and Latin America.

He has dedicated himself above all to the analysis of the indigenous world of Ecuador, the complex social and cultural processes and the emerging reconstruction of indigenous identities. Focusing on the study of the processes of construction of indigenous social networks and interconnectivity, understood as a new form of knowledge in the reunion of tradition and modernity.

Participated in Medialab Madrid banquete05 within the colloquium “Technological transformation of the
communication and sociocultural change” as a speaker with “Indigenous interconnectivity”.