Derecho de los Pueblos Indígenas

por la Dra. Teodora Zamudio Derecho~UBA  ~ Equipo de Docencia e Investigación

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Cuerpo académico invitado

 

Catherine Lussier

Curso Intensivo de Posgrado~Doctorado -julio 2003
"Los Pueblos Indígenas y el ordenamiento jurídico"

Resolución CD N° 729/02  

Programa
Cuerpo académico
Expertos indígenas
Bibliografía general

Canadian citizen

Permanent address: 5011 Grosvenor, Montreal, Quebec, H2W 2M2

Tel.: (514) 737-7756

Email  

 

Academic qualifications

M. A. in Anthropology, University of Montreal (1987).

Ph. D. in Anthropology, University of Montreal (1995).

Post-doctoral fellow in anthropology at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri (1996-1998)

Languages spoken, read, written and translated:  French, English, Spanish

 

Current Status

Consultant in socio-economic research

Research Associate at INRS-Culture et Société, Montreal.

 

Professional competencies

Social research

Research coordination

Cross-cultural facilitation

Project design and funding applications

Environmental impact assessment

Literature reviews

Individual and group interviews

Focus groups

Workshop coordination

Program evaluation

Writing, translating, editing in French, English and Spanish

 

Experience with Indigenous communities

March-July 2001: Design and implementation of a Consultation Program for the MRUSF EIA (hydro dam in Belize) as consultant for AMEC. Design and implementation of consulting activities with Maya Indigenous groups and communities.

1999-2001: Coordination and implementation of consultation activities for various development and research projects in Northern Quebec Native communities.

Facilitation on resource management issues for multi-stakeholders workshops involving Indigenous, government and forestry industry representatives.

February-March 2000: Organization of cross-cultural exchanges between several Quebec Native groups (Cree, Naskapi, Algonguin, Innu, Atikamekw) and Latin American indigenous representatives (Mexico, Peru) in the context of the Inditerra Program at INRS-Culture et Société.

1989-1991: 30 months fieldwork experience in high altitude environment in the Bolivian Andes (4000m), of which 24 months were spent in a remote Aymara (Indigenous) herding community. 

1998: responsible for the implementation of a Perception Study for the Waskaganish Permanent Road Project EIA, a project developed by the First Nation of Waskaganish (Cree Indigenous community in Quebec province).

 

Professional Affiliations

Member of Pro-Diversitas

Senior Research Associate, CS/RESORS Consulting Ltd.

Member of the Society for Applied Anthropology

 

Professional Experience

March 2001-

Design and implementation of a Consultation Program for an environmental impact study for AMEC & Associates Ltd. Involved 60 days of fieldwork in Belize, Central America for coordinating and conducting research, interviews, workshops, meetings, facilitation, meetings with local authorities, analysis and report writing.

 

 

Since 1992

Senior Research Associate at CS/RESORS Consulting Ltd. Multiple responsibilities in terms of organization and research for federal and provincial projects. Sector studies, literature reviews; coordination of specialized focus groups, of meetings and interviews with key respondents; program evaluation studies and socio-economic research for governmental departments and agencies (Indian and Northern Affairs, Secretary of State, Health & Welfare, Employment & Immigration), as well as independent organizations.

 

 

Feb. 1998 to March 2001

Research Associate at INRS-Culture et Société, Montreal.

Responsibilities and involvement in:

¨        Applied research and fieldwork in the Quebec James Bay Cree First Nations;

¨        Environmental Impact study for Waskaganish First Nation;

¨        Research on forestry and resource management for the Waswanipi Cree Model Forest (criteria & indicators; needs assessments, intercultural communication issues on co-management boards; perception study; community participation, facilitation for multi-stakeholder meetings, planning sessions);

¨        Organization of focus groups and workshops in Native communities;

¨        Research Coordinator for CURA (University Community Research Alliance) SSHRC-funded project;

¨        Coordinator for INRS-based INDITERRA, an international research network.

 

 

February 1999

Evaluation of Final Report “Estudio de Productividad  de  Rural y Manejo de Recursos Naturales (EPR)”, an extensive perception study conducted under the auspices of the World Bank, COSUDE  and the Viceministerio  de  Participación Popular y Fortalecimiento Municipal, Bolivia ([SUR:\EPR\INFORME.V6]).

 

 

1996-1998

Postdoctoral fellow at University of Washington in St. Louis, Missouri. Research conducted in Bolivia.

 

 

Sept. 1997-May 1998

Teaching Assistant, "Musées et techniques de communication" (MLS 6501), Départment de psychopédagogie et d'Andragogie, University of Montréal.

 

 

Sept. 1997-April 1998

Research Assistant for GRAVTI (Groupe de Recherche sur l'Apprentissage à Vie et Technologies Informatiques), Départment de psychopédagogie et d'Andragogie, University of Montréal.

 

 

Jan.-May 1996:

Lecturer at the Department of Anthropology, University of Montreal.

 

 

Jan.- May 1995:

Lecturer at l'Université du Québec à Hull, Social Sciences Program.

 

 

1995-1998

Teaching Assistant for televised course "Contexte d’utilisation des psychotropes". Distance Education, Faculty of Continuing Education, University of Montréal.

 

 

Mar. 1985 - Dec. 1995:

Research Assistance; teaching assistance and monitorate at the Department of Anthropology, University of Montreal.

 

 

Oct. 1989 - May 1991:

Research Associate at the Museo de Etnografía y Folklore.

 

 

May 1985 - Jan. 1986:

Assistant Editor for Antropologia Visualis, at the Comission on Visual Anthropology, Department of Anthropology, University of Montreal.

 

 

5-8 September 1985:

Delegate for the Comission on Visual Anthropology at the First Latin American Film Festival on Indigenous People, Mexico.

 

 

Feb. 1980 - Jan. 1985:

Researcher for the television series "Planète" at Radio-Québec.

 

Post-Graduate Research Grants

1985-1987:   Fonds pour la Formation de Chercheurs et l’aide à la Recherche (FCAR) M. A.  grant.

1987-1991:  Conseil de Recherche en Sciences Humaines (CRSH) Doctoral grant .

1996-1998:  Fonds pour la Formation de Chercheurs et l’aide à la Recherche (FCAR)

Post-doctoral research grant.

 

 

Publications, reports, working documents

2001

Spiritual Opportunism or Creative Integration? The Aggregation of Spiritual Powers by Ritual Specialists Among Highland Aymara Herders. Proceedings of the International Congress Shamanism and Other Indigenous Spiritual Beliefs and Practices, Moscow June 7-12, 1999. In print.

 

 

1999

Évolution de l’exploitation forestière sur le territoire de la Première Nation de Waswanipi. INRS-Culture et Société working paper.

 

 

1999

First author

Waswanipi Cree Model Forest. Needs and Expectations Among Community and Other Partners. Research report INRS-Culture et société. Montreal, March 1999, 71p.

 

 

1999

co-author

Réseaux sociaux et alimentation chez les Inuit de la région circumpolaire. Report produced for GETIC, Laval University.

 

 

1999

Évolution de l’exploitation forestière sur le territoire de la Première Nation de Waswanipi. INRS-Culture et Société, internal document, 16 pp.

 

 

1998

(second author)

Waskaganish Permanent Road. Environmental and Social Impact Study, Second author in Vol. 1. (Impact Analysis) and Vol. III (Communications).

 

 

1998

The Permanent Access Road to Eastmain Environmental Assessment. Monitoring and Follow-up. A General Overview. INRS-Culture et Société, Internal document, Montreal, 23 pp.

 

 

1997

"Le diktat des contraintes écologiques dans l'ethnologie des hautes Andes. Bilan et perspectives". Actes du colloque «Anthropologie et écologie», department of Anthropology, University of Montreal.

 

 

1996

"Building Local Hierarchies: Good and Bad Ancestors Among the Bolivian Aymara Herders". In The Aborigines of the Americas: New Facts and New Interpretations. Valery A. Tishkov (ed.), Ameridian Series, Moscow: Nauka, pp. 93-115.

 

 

1995

"Ancêtres redoutables ou ancêtres impuissants? Patrifiliation, factionnalisme et manipulation généalogique chez les éleveurs Aymaras", Recherches Amérindiennes Au Québec, Vol. XXV (2):52-65.

 

 

1995

Litterature Review on Performance Measurement of the Evaluation Function. Presented by CS/RESORS to the Committee on Performance Measurement of the Evaluation Function Indian & Northern Affairs Canada, Agriculture & Agri-Food Canada, July 1995, 60p.

 

 

1995

¡Somos Alamarka! Élevage et raison politique dans une communauté aymara des hautes terres boliviennes. Doctoral dissertation in anthropology, University of Montreal.

 

 

1987

Anthropologie des sociétés pastorales. Des concepts aux faits, une impasse épistémologique. M.A. dissertation in anthropology, University of Montreal.

 

 

1986

"Premier festival latino-américain du cinéma des peuples indigènes". CVA Newsletter, August 1986: 8-9.

 

Conferences, seminars

October 1999

Resource sharing and Cultural Survival: Involving Local Aboriginal Communities in the Search for Sustainable Development. International Forum « Altai-Sayan_Eurasia-XXI century” World Wide Fund for Nature – Russian Programme Office, 2-9 October 1999

 

 

June 1999

Communication issues in Cross-cultural partnerships for resource management : Sustainable development and participatory approaches among the James Bay Cree. Moving Towards Pluralism. Fourth International Conference of the Ethnic Studies Network – INCORE (Initiative on Conflict Resolution and Ethnicity) and Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology, Russian Academy of Science, Moscow, June 8–11, 1999.

 

 

June 1999

Spiritual opportunism or creative integration? The aggregation of spiritual powers by ritual specialists among highland Aymara herders. International Congress on Shamanism and Other Indigenous Spiritual Beliefs and Practices, Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology, Russian Academy of Science, Moscou, June 7-12, 1999.

 

 

Novemb. 1997

Reforma agraria y pastoralismo en José Manuel Pando. Historia de una reconstrucción. Xma Reunión Anual de Etnología. Museo de Etnografía y Folklore. La Paz, Bolivia.

 

 

February 1997

Le diktat des contraintes écologiques dans l'ethnologie des hautes Andes. Bilan et perspectives. Presented at the colloquy “Anthropologie et écologie”, department of Anthropology, University of Montreal.

 

 

April 1996

Performance Measurement of the Evaluation Function. Interim report presented to Treasury Board Canada in the context of the Literature Review on Performance Measurement of the Evaluation Function for the Department of Indian Affairs and the North, Hull.

 

 

May 1995

Beyond Assimilation and Traditionalism: Reviving the Ancestral Polity in an Aymara Community. Paper presented at the symposium State and Local Relations, CASCA 22nd Annual Meeting, Montreal.

 

 

Nov. 1994

Du terrain à l'écriture, ou le syndrome de l'ignorance. Paper presented at the Department of Anthropology, University of Montreal.

 

 

October 1993

L'Élevage traditionnel des camélidés dans les hautes Andes boliviennes. Conference presented in the course “Introduction to ethnology”, Department of anthropology, University of Montreal.

 

 

October 1993

One-day seminar given to Environmental and Occupational Health middle management in the context of a Feasibility Study on Status Transfer to Special Operating Agency. Health and Welfare Canada.

 

 

March 1993

De l'ethnographie des hauteurs: démographie et problèmes méthodologiques. Conference presented in the Department of Anthropology, University of Montreal.

 

 

May 1992

Territoire et identité chez les éleveurs aymara. Réflexions sur les concepts de traditionalisme et d'intégration nationale. Paper presented at the symposium “Identités multiples: analyse des processus identitaires contemporains”, CASCA 19th Annual Meeting, Montréal.

 

 

April 1992

Elevage alto-andin et territoire, des divisions ancestrales aux fusions contemporaines. Conference presented in the Department of Anthropology, University of Montreal.

 

 

October  1991

Pastoralisme dans les Andes: les éleveurs aymara du haut-plateau bolivien. Paper presented in the "Retour de terrain" conference series, Department of Anthropology, University of Montreal.

 

 

Sept. 1985

La Comisión de Antropología Visual: Perspectivas de Intercambio - Proyecto UNESCO. Paper presented in Spanish as delegate of the Commission on Visual Anthropology, First Latin American Film Festival on Indigenous Peoples, Museum of Anthropology, Mexico City.

 

Published Translations

1996:

"Corps phantasmatique, corps religieux, corps corrompu  : Viridiana, un discours de frontières." Chapter in a collective work by V. Sanchez-Biosca to be published in 1996 in  (spanish/french).

 

 

1996:

"Auteur, style et démiurgie dans la première période allemande de Lang". Vicente Sanchez-Biosca, Conférence, Paris.

 

 

1995:

"Savoir mourir, anthropologie de la mort et récits de psychopathes au cinémal". Vicente Sanchez-Biosca. Paris.

 

 

1993:

"Culture, organisation et mouvement indien chez les Quichuas d'Otavalo, Equateur." by C. Coloma, Recherche Amériendiennes Au Québec Vol. XXII (4):75-78. (spanish/french).

 

 

1991:

"Les missions Salésiennes et le peuple Shuar. Bilan d'une expérience". by J. Bottasso, Recherches Amérindiennes Au Québec  Vol. XXI (4):77-91. (spanish/french).

 

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