"Purijkuna: Otavalan Transnational Migrants and the Politics of Destination"
Michelle Wibbelsman
Assistant Professor
Department of Spanish and Portuguese
The Ohio State University
Michelle Wibbelsman (PhD. Cultural Anthropology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 2004). Her research interests and areas of specialization include South American indigenous cultures, ethnographic studies and ethnomusicology. Her work in Andean Ecuador since 1995 has focused on symbolic and semiotic analytical approaches to indigenous performances, ritual practices and politics. She is the author of Ritual Encounters. Otavalan Modern and Mythic Community (U. Illinois P, 2008). Her current research explores indigenous transnational migration, diaspora and cosmopolitanism.
