facultyexplore advaya’s teachers
Explore advaya's faculty of teachers, scientists, practitioners, philosophers and storytellers, who share multidimensional, local and diverse narratives from across the world.
Bayo Akomolafe
Sophie Strand
Satish Kumar
Vandana Shiva
Veronica Strang
Manda Scott
Beloved Sara Zaltash
David Abram
Dr Andreas Weber
David Whyte
Helena Norberg-Hodge
Dr. Predrag Slijepcevic
Charles Eisenstein
Aisha Paris Smith
Brontë Velez
Edgar Kanaykõ
Edgar Kanaykõ belongs to the Xakriabá Indigenous people in the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil. He holds a master’s degree in Anthropology from Federal University of Minas Gerais. He works in the area of ethno-photography: “a means of registering an aspect of culture — the life of a people.”
Edgar is one of contemporary Brazilian photography’s leading voices, looking at the resistance and struggle for territory and culture from the point of view of indigenous peoples. Recently he has participated in exhibitions such as Véxoa: We Know (Pinacoteca de São Paulo, 2020, curated by Naine Terena); Manjar: Re-conhecimento (Solar dos Abacaxis, Rio de Janeiro, 2019, curated by Denilson Baniwa and Maria Catarina Duncan); and Urgence et résistance (Espace Shakirail, Paris, 2019, curated by Cristianne Rodrigues). In 2020, he won the CNPq Photography, Science & Art Award, for his work “Iny: O Brilho dos Espíritos”, captured during the Kuarup ritual, performed by the Kuikuro people in the Upper Xingu.
