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Melina Pereira

About Melina

Melina Carlota Pereira is an Indigenous woman from the Macuxi people. She has a bachelor’s degree in anthropology and a master’s degree in social anthropology from the Institute of Anthropology of the Federal University of Roraima, Brazil. She is a consultant and researcher at Usina da Imaginação and works as an anthropologist in the Yanomami and Ye’kuana Special Indigenous Sanitary District. Her research topics focus on gender and displacement, indigenous health, and childhood.

Stories by Melina

  • Environment & Cities

Maintaining and celebrating rural indigenous practices in Brazilian cities

How the E’ñepa give and take care, and what they need to thrive

Birth of a Parent Podcast

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