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Vinicius de Aguiar Furuie is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Toronto. His research provides insights into environmental economic anthropology, particularly focusing on the interactions between humans and non-humans in the Amazon region. Since 2007, he has conducted extensive fieldwork on the economy of Non-Timber Forest Products, involving river traders and Indigenous riverside communities, and has explored themes such as exchange, credit, and patronage within asymmetrical relations. In addition, he has analyzed the paradigms of human-environment relations. His scholarly contributions include work on Japanese environmental movements and the anti-nuclear protests following the Fukushima meltdown in 2011. Furuie received his PhD in Anthropology from Princeton University in 2020 and served as an Environmental Fellow at Harvard University from 2020 to 2022.
University of Toronto • Toronto, ON
Teaching and conducting research in the Department of Anthropology, focusing on environmental economic anthropology.
Department of Sociology