A passion at the service of nomadic peoples
YURTA Association is a legal non-profit organization created to give a formal status to the initiatives developed by Santiago J. Carralero in the field of the nomadic-tradition cultures. Without registred members, YURTA usually works in collaboration with governmental institutions, organizations, indigenous associations and committed individuals when developing projects on the field or attending events. YURTA Association also produces artworks and films, publishes books and issues expert reports.
Academic background
Santiago Carralero is twice graduate (Geography and History, and Social and Cultural Anthropology, UNED-Madrid), Expert in Indigenous Peoples, Human Rights and International Cooperation (UC3M), and Master in Anthropological Research and its Applications (UNED). Additionally, he also carried out university studies in Fine Arts and participated in some photo and painting exhibtions (Salamanca, Amsterdam).
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Santiago J. Carralero Benítez
Applied anthropologist, historian, geographer and visual artist specialized in nomadic-tradition peoples and their ecosystems "I was born in the southern Spanish city of Málaga and lived in different placs, both in Spain and abroad. During 30 years, I worked as a public officer in Spain, using both paid and unpaid leaves to study the nomadic phenomenom. I have visited more than 30 countries in search of that heritage, highlighting Chile, Bolivia, Argentina and Peru in America; Namibia, Botswana, Kenya, Uganda and Morocco in Africa; Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, Mongolia, China, Nepal, India, Thailand, Vietnam, Myanmar, Cambodia, Malaysia, Indonesia and The Philippines in Asia.
As a social researcher I has carried out fieldwork in South America and Asia. My major anthropological works include a book published in 2007 resuming 3 years of research among the itinerant groups of North-Western India with the leit-motiv of the origin of gypsies (published in Spanish), a research on the present-day situation of the Yaghan people in Navarino Island (Chile), displayed in form of a visual exhibition in the 2009 IUAES Congress (Kunming, China), and some years later (2008-2014), a long campaign carried out in East Tibet (Kham and Amdo), which provided the data to write my master thesis and later my last book: "Paisaje tras la Catástrofe" (2020). I also implemented the two-years porject "Community Dialogues in High Asia" among yak-herding communities of High Asia (2016-17), with FAO funding, and in 2019 elaborated the report "Following the thread of Yak" for IFAD". |
