Dr. Anne Gustavsson

Biography

Anne Gustavsson holds a Ph.D. in Social Anthropology and works as a researcher. Her work employs anthropological and historical perspectives, as well as ethnographic methods, to investigate people's relationships with objects, spaces, and the complexities of colonial history, heritage, and migration studies. She is particularly focused on the study of historical and contemporary interactions within anthropological museums, examining how Indigenous and non-Indigenous rural communities engage with archival materials pertaining to their heritage, particularly in the context of 'digital repatriation'. Through her archival work, she has reconstructed colonial encounters involving Indigenous Peoples and Swedish ethnographers in the border regions of Argentina, Bolivia, and Paraguay. From 2022 to 2024, she participates in the research project "Settlement Dispossession Entangled: Swedish Migration Argentina, Brazil Bolivia", funded by Riksbankens Jubileumsfond, which explores Swedish migration to Latin America in the early 1900s and its implications for settler societies. Previously, from 2018 to 2021, Anne led a postdoctoral research project titled "Photography, Ethnography, and Colonization in Río Pilcomayo: Histories and Memories of the Nivaclé in Formosa (Argentina)", focusing on visual repatriation processes related to museum collections.

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