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Nelly Arvelo-Jiménez o la comprensión de los pueblos índígenas en Venezuela
Published Feb 1, 2018 · Jenniffer Contreras-Arévalo
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Venezuelan social anthropologist Nelly Arvelo-Jimenez was born in Valencia, Carabobo State. His life and career are deeply related to the development of the Venezuelan Institute of Scientific Investigations (IVIC). Graduated as an anthropologist from the Central University of Venezuela, she obtained her doctorate from Cornell University (New York, USA). Upon returning to the country, she devoted herself to the analysis of the State's relations with indigenous peoples, especially with the Ye'kuana ethnic group located in the Venezuelan Amazon. During more than four decades of investigative work, Arvelo-Jimenez contributed to the ethnological analysis focused on the search for the economic, political and cultural connections of the Ye'kuana society with the South Region and the rest of the indigenous Caribs of Venezuela; these multiple interactions allowed her to understand in depth about the multi-ethnic composition of the Guayana Region, enabling the formulation of a theoretical model of political interconnection of the indigenous peoples of the Orinoco basin, known as the Orinoco Regional Interethnic System (SIRO).
Nelly Arvelo-Jimenez is a Venezuelan social anthropologist who has studied the economic, political, and cultural connections between indigenous peoples and the state, leading to the Orinoco Regional Interethnic System (SIRO).
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