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Terence Robin Rupert Roopnaraine Jesus College Cambridge CB5 8BL ENGLAND Tel: +44-(0)1223-339699 Fax: +44-(0)1223-335993 Email: trrr100@cam.ac.uk Education 1992-1996 University of Cambridge. PhD in Social Anthropology. Dissertation title: Freighted Fortunes: Gold and Diamond Mining in the Pakaraima Mountains, Guyana. Received December 1996. 1986-1990 Harvard University. BA in Anthropology, magna cum laude. Received June 1990. Positions Held Currently Research Fellow, Jesus College, Cambridge. Summer 1998 Project Evaluator, Rupununi Weavers Society. Assessed community development project in the Rupununi Savannahs, Guyana. 1997 Project Evaluator, Co-operation for Development. Assessed community development projects in the Pakaraima Mountains, Guyana. 1997 Research Consultant, Avenir desPeuples des Forets Tropicales Programme. Carried out socio-economic survey of Amerindian communities in the Barima River, Guyana. 1997-1998 Guyana Co-ordinator, Guiana Shield Media Project. 1997 Associate, Walter Roth Museum of Anthropology, Georgetown, Guyana. 1997 Postdoctoral Research Associate, Department of Social Anthropology, Cambridge. 1995 Assistant Director, Poison in the Lifeline (a TV documentary about an environmental disaster in the gold mining sector, Guyana). 1990 Reporter and columnist, Stabroek News, Guyana. Teaching Experience 1998 Joint-coordinated pre-fieldwork PhD research methods seminars. 1998 Joint-lectured for third-year undergraduate paper on Amazonian ethnography. 1998 Lectured in economic anthropology to third-year undergraduates, Department of Social Anthropology, Cambridge. 1995-1998 Supervised undergraduate students in Department of Social Anthropology, Cambridge. Papers taught: First Year Social Anthropology, Anthropological Theory, Urban and Ethnic Studies, Latin America, Non-Industrial Economics, Third World, Development, undergraduate dissertation. Co-ordinated pre-fieldwork seminar series for first-year PhD students. 1987 Taught workshops on black and white photography, Burrowes School of Art, Guyana.

Papers and Publications 1998. New IPR legislation in Guyana. Presented at Indigenous knowledge, biodiversity and rights symposium, Cambridge, January 1998. 1998. The social and economic conditions of Amerindian communities on the Barima River, Guyana. Report for Avenir des Peuples des ForÍts Tropicales research programme. 1998. Indigenous knowledge, biodiversity and rights. Review article, Anthropology today 14:3. 1997. Extractivism and the economy of nature in Guyana. Presented at Department of Social Anthropology, University of St. Andrews, Scotland. 1997. Ecology and geology: knowledge, culture and mining in the Pakaraima Mountains, Guyana. Presented at the annual general meeting, American Anthropological Association, Washington, D.C., November 1997. 1997. Symbolising value: culture and economy among Guyanese gold and diamond miners. Cambridge Anthropology 19:3, 22-42. 1996. Symbolising value: culture and economy among Guyanese gold and diamond miners. Presented at senior seminar, Department of Social Anthropology, Cambridge. 1996. Diamonds and dislocation: Creole identity in the Guyanese hinterland. Presented at The Making of Creole Societies advanced seminar, Oxford University. 1995. Continental drift: reorienting South American anthropology. Presented (in absentia) at Anthropology and the Indigenes conference, Georgetown, Guyana. 1995. Cyanide in the jungle (again). Presented at graduate seminar, Centre for Latin American Studies, Cambridge. 1995. Shout on the border: minerals, social tension and the frontier. Archaeology and Anthropology 10, 36-42. 1994. Mineral mining in Amerindian communities. Presented to workshop on land resources at annual general meeting of the Caribbean Conservation Association. Forthcoming Extractivism and the economy of nature in Guyana.í In P. Gay y Blasco and H. Wardle (eds.) Ethnographic Routes: new anthropological methodologies. Grants and Awards Received 1997-1998 Jesus College Fellows Research Grants. 1995-1996 Henry Ling Roth Anthropological Scholarship. 1995 Radcliffe-Brown Fund, Royal Anthropological Institute. 1995 / 1993 Kings College Graduate Student Fund. 1995 / 1993 William Wyse Fund. 1993-1994 Bartle Frere Memorial Fund. 1993-1994 Crowther-Beynon Fund. 1993-1994 Richards Fund. 1993-1994 Emslie Horniman Anthropological Scholarship, Royal Anthropological Institute. 1993-1994 Smuts Fund. 1992-1995 ORS Award.

Professional societies Fellow, Royal Anthropological Institute. Member, European Association of Social Anthropologists Interests Photography, ethnographic film (Guaina Shield Media Project), travel, environmental issues. Personal Born 30-11-67, Cambridge, England. Dual British/ Guyanese citizenship. I have lived in England, the US, Italy, Jamaica, Canada and Guyana. References available on request