About

Research Context

Mongolia | Colombian Amazons

Research Interests

ecological anthropology | gender | human-animal relations | Amazon

Institutional Subunit

ISCTE

Biographical Note

Selcen Küçüküstel is a social anthropologist working on ecological anthropology. She finished her PhD at Humboldt University Berlin with a study on the nomadic Dukha reindeer herders of northern Mongolia, focusing on human-animal relationships. Her first book titled Embracing Landscape: Living with Reindeer, Hunting among Spirits was published in 2021 by Berghahn books. Selcen currently works as a Marie Curie postdoctoral researcher at Iscte, studying the relations between women and nonhuman world, importance of traditional ecological knowledge that women possess in indigenous societies and how this knowledge affects their status in the society they live in Siberia and the Amazon. Apart from her academic career, she works as a photojournalist and documentary filmmaker.

Status

Integrated (2024-05-01)