# 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. Additionally, 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 |
| Anastasia V. Sergeeva | Vrije Universiteit | 2024 | Madrid | Robots in our midst: an ethnographer in the new world of work. |
| Marcio Goldman | Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro | 2024 | Madrid | Antropología y Saberes Orgánicos: Los Posibles de un Encuentro Cosmopolítico. |
| Pedro Pitarch | Universidad Complutense de Madrid | 2024 | Madrid | El trickster de la Antropología. |
| 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 450. The winning article and articles shortlisted for the Award are published in the scientific journal AIBR.
| Year | Author | Title | Title Spanish |
| 2023 | Rosario Carmona Yost | Indigenous peoples' participation in climate policy. An ethnographic review of the Chilean experience | Participación de los pueblos indígenas en la política climática. Una revisión etnográfica de la experiencia chilena |
| 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. |

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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.