Asociación de Antropólogos Iberoamericanos en Red

The association AIBR (Network of Iberoamerican Anthropologists, from the Spanish Antropólogos Iberoamericanos en Red) started in 1996 with the creation of the portal El Rincón del Antropólogo (The Anthropologist Corner), which brought together the team of one of the first portals of anthropology in the Spanish-speaking world. The association has become a network that connects more than 7,000 anthropologists of Spain, Portugal and all the Latin American countries.

Creation of AIBR and AIBR. Revista de Antropología Iberoamericana

In November 2002, the association was legally constituted and recognized by the Minister of the Interior of Spain. Since 2001, AIBR has published the scientific journal AIBR. Revista de Antropología Iberoamericana ('Journal of Iberoamerican Anthropology') every four months, both electronically and in paper.

AIBR Annual International Conference of Anthropology

On July 7–10, 2015, the association held its first International Conference under the global theme "The human being: cultures, origins, and destiny," with over 800 delegates in Madrid (Spain). The meeting was presented by anthropologist Didier Fassin (Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton), and closed with a lecture by Aurora González Echevarria (Autonomous University of Barcelona).

The Second AIBR International Conference took place in Barcelona (http://2016.aibr.org) in September 2016, under the global theme "Identity: Bridges, Thresholds, and Barriers".. This edition opened with a plenary conference by Arturo Escobar (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill), and continued with further lectures by Tim Ingold (University of Aberdeen), Verena Stolcke (Autonomous University of Barcelona) and Manuel Delgado (University of Barcelona).

The Third AIBR International Conference of Anthropology took place in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico (http://2017.aibr.org) in November 2017 and was the first edition of the AIBR Conference to take place across the Atlantic. The global theme was "Travels, crossings, displacements", and began with an inaugural lecture by Marc Augé (École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, EHESS).

The Fourth AIBR International Conference of Anthropology took place in Granada (http://2018.aibr.org), under the general theme "Dialogues, Encounters, and Stories from the Souths.". This edition began with a plenary session by Nigel Barley and closed with a closing plenary session by Paul Stoller (West Chester University, Pennsylvania), and Maria Paula Meneses (CES Coimbra) offered a conference. Besides, a new form of meeting was introduced, with the first "Diálogo a Dos" between María Teresa del Valle (University of Basque Country) and Mónica Tarducci (University of Buenos Aires) on the connections between anthropology and feminism.

Year	City	Theme	Website
2024	Madrid, Spain	Anthropological Intelligence	http://2024.aibr.org
2023	City of Mexico, Mexico	The Intercultural Challenge	http://2023.aibr.org
2022	Salamanca, Spain	Legacies	http://2022.aibr.org
2021	Vila Real, Portugal	Humanity: unity and diversity	http://2021.aibr.org
2020	Virtual	Humanities in emergency, health and social reconstruction	http://2020.aibr.org
2019	Madrid, Spain	Thinking cultures, changing worlds	http://2019.aibr.org
2018	Granada, Spain	Encounters, dialogues and stories from the Souths	http://2018.aibr.org
2017	Puerto Vallarta, Mexico	Travels, crossings, displacements	http://2017.aibr.org
2016	Barcelona, Spain	Identity: Bridges, Thresholds, and Barriers	http://2016.aibr.org
2015	Madrid, Spain	The Human Being: Cultures, Origins, and Destiny	http://2015.aibr.org

List of plenary speakers who have participated in both the opening and closing sessions and who endorse for their contribution to the discipline in the international arena

List of notable speakers

Speaker	Center	Year	Congress	Title
Eduardo Restrepo	Universidad Católica de Temuco	2023	Ciudad de México	Interculturalidad en la lucha contra el racismo en Colombia: alcances y limitaciones.
Eve Danziger	University of Virginia	2023	Ciudad de México	Hablando de otros: el cristianismo como distinción social en la América Latina indígena.
Linda Manzanilla	Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México	2023	Ciudad de México	La diversidad cultural en el pasado prehispánico.El reto de vivir en la primera urbe multiétnica del centro de México: Teotihuacan.
Joanne Rappaport	Georgetown University	2022	Salamanca, Spain	Reflexiones sobre la traducción de la etnografía al cómic.
Ruth Behar	University of Michigan	2022	Salamanca, Spain	¿Qué quedará...? Algunas respuestas desde la autoetnografía y la ficción para jóvenes.
Kath Weston	University of Virginia, University of Edinburgh	2021	Vila Real, Portugal	Counterfactual Ethnography:Imagining What It Takes to Live Differently
Gustavo Lins Ribeiro	Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Unidad Lerma	2021	Vila Real, Portugal	Diversidad de flujos internacionales antropológicos. La influencia de una antropología latinoamericana.
Paul Stoller	West Chester University	2020	Virtual edition	The art of ethnography in troubled times
Miguel Vale de Almeida	ISCTE – University Institute of Lisbon	2020	Virtual edition	What to do? Anthropology in front of the contemporary reaction
Rosana Guber	University of Buenos Aires	2019	Madrid, Spain	Pensar la etnografía en Iberoamérica:  4 líneas y 4 paradojas desde el trabajo de campo
Francisco J. Ferrándiz	CSIC	2019	Madrid, Spain	¿Exhumar a Francisco Franco? Etnografía de un descenso a las profundidades del Valle
Nigel Barley	British Museum	2018	Granada, Spain	Making exhibitions of Ourselves
Paul Stoller	West Chester University	2018	Granada, Spain	Slow anthropology in a Fast World
Marc Augé	École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales	2017	Puerto Vallarta, Mexico	El viaje como ilusión y como promesa
Arturo Escobar	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	2016	Barcelona, Spain	Entramados, puentes, y muros epistémicos: Tejiendo el pluriverso
Tim Ingold	University of Aberdeen	2016	Barcelona, Spain	One World Anthropology
Verena Stolcke	Autonomous University of Barcelona	2016	Barcelona, Spain	A propósito de naciones, nacionalidades y fronteras. No es racismo, estúpido
Manuel Delgado Ruiz	University of Barcelona	2016	Barcelona, Spain	La Antropología en los tiempos del cólera. Una reflexión y un balance
Didier Fassin	Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton	2015	Madrid, Spain	Noticias del terreno. Una defensa e ilustración de la etnografía
Aurora González Echevarría	Autonomous University of Barcelona	2015	Madrid, Spain	El alcance de las teorías sobre la parentalidad La comparación transcultural como extensión de modelos etnográficos

AIBR Best Article Award in Iberoamerican Anthropology

Since 2013, the AIBR Best Article Award in Iberoamerican Anthropology has been awarded annually to the best article from the previous calendar year. This award is sponsored by the AIBR journal and comes with a prize of EUR 400. The articles shortlisted for the Award are the ones finally published in the scientific journal AIBR.

Year	Author	Title	Title Spanish
2022	Laura Marina Panizo	The Agency of Death: Experiences with Ghosts in Colina, Santiago de Chile	Los fantasmas de Chicureo: Convivir con muertos en el Barrio de Colina, Santiago de Chile
2021	Lydia Rodríguez Cuevas	The Languages of the Mind	Los lenguajes del pensamiento
2020	Paula Escribano, Agata Hummel, José Luis Molina	He is an Entrepreneur, but I am not; I am a Self-Employed Worker: Self-Representation and Subsistence of Neo-Peasants in Catalonia	Él es emprendedor pero yo no. Yo soy autónomo. Autorrepresentación y subsistencia de los campesinos en Cataluña
2019	Peter C. Little	Bodies, Toxins, and E-Waste Labour Interventions in Ghana: Toward a Toxic Postcolonial Corporality?	Cuerpos, toxinas e intervenciones laborales con residuos electrónicos en Ghana: ¿Hacia una corporalidad poscolonial tóxica?
2018	Gerardo Fernández Juárez	A Kallawaya master in Madrid's Gran Vía	Un kallawaya en la «Gran Vía». Notas de campo en Madrid
2017	Gabriel Ruiz Romero	Three times at the square: Staging of a ceremony of statal public forgiveness due to the acts of paramilitary violence in Colombia	Tres veces en la plaza: Escenificación de una ceremonia estatal de perdón público por actos de violencia paramilitar en Colombia
2016	Felipe Cárdenas Tamara	The sign Cultural Landscape from the horizons of Semiotic Anthropology	El signo paisaje cultural desde los horizontes de la antropología semiótica
2015	Marco Tobón	Dreams as ethnographic tools	Los sueños como instrumentos etnográficos
2014	Juan Antonio Flores Martos	Emerging iconographies and patrimonized deaths in Latin America: Holly dead, miraculous dead and adopted dead	Iconografías emergentes y muertes patrimonializadas en América Latina: Santa Muerte, muertos milagrosos y muertos adoptados
2013	Olatz González-Abrisketa	Displaced bodies: gender, sport, and cultural domination in the Basque court	Cuerpos desplazados. Género, deporte, y protagonismo cultural en la plaza vasca.

More information

AIBR does not belong to any university or academic institution, nor does it follow any political or religious faith. It is a private, independent initiative that anyone may join. It is funded by means of the statutory projects and activities, and the annual subscription fees provided by its members. AIBR has belonged to the International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences (IUAES) since July 2005.

External links

• Official website