Last Updated: March 2010
Cabeceras Aid Project relies primarily on our two founding fieldworkers to carry out our community-oriented projects in the Amazon Basin. Please read on to learn more about them.
Lev Michael : lev at cabeceras.org
Chris Beier : chris at cabeceras.org
Chris and Lev founded Cabeceras Aid Project in 1996 as a mechanism for developing sustainable, practically oriented, and mutually beneficial relationships with small indigenous Amazonian groups, as those groups face the challenges presented by their increasing contact with other societies, cultures, and languages.
Lev and Chris have carried out fieldwork for Cabeceras in Peru in 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2008, and 2009, and are planning their next fieldtrip from May to August 2010.
Various reports and results written by Chris and Lev about their work through Cabeceras are available at this website. For information about the Iquito Language Documentation Project, visit the ILDP webpages.
Lev Michael is currently an Assistant Professor in the Linguistics department at the University of California at Berkeley. Click here to visit his faculty page and here to visit Greater Blogazonia (his blog).
Chris Beier is completing her PhD in Linguistic Anthropology program at the University of Texas at Austin in May 2010, after which she plans to greatly increase her volunteer work for Cabeceras.
While at UT-Austin, Lev and Chris were involved in the development of The Archive of the Indigenous Languages of Latin America, a web-based archive of sound recordings and texts from diverse indigenous languages of Latin America. Please visit the AILLA website!
