Agua Blanca Ecuador

About

In three separate field seasons, Dr. Smith has taken students to Ecuador to assist a coastal indigenous community in several applied community-based research projects involving sustainable organic agriculture, health outreach, applied community theatre, place-based education, and the compilation of materials for a local archive, including community-directed video as well as folktales, interviews with elders, and organizing of historical documents.

Areas of Interest

Cultural anthropology, applied anthropology, applied community theatre, medical anthropology, visual anthropology

For more information

Contact Dr. Kimbra Smith