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YURTA Association: a passion at the service of the nomadic-tradition indigenous communities


YURTA Association is basically a legal non-profit association created to give a formal status to the initiatives developed by Santiago J. Carralero in the field of the nomadic-traditions people. Without registred members, YURTA usually works in collaboration with other organizations and indigenous associations, but also as a specialized indepedent researching institution.
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Academic formation
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).
Expert consultancy
Any kind of issues related to nomadic-tradition communities: history, traditions, culture, environment, anthropology, politics, organization, indigenous associations, international network, art and crafts, tribal-state conciliation, biocultural diversity, transboundary issues, human and indigenous rights, animal fibre, etc.
Last consultancy work
Report "Following the thread of Yak" (commissioned by IFAD, 2019-2020)

Santiago J. Carralero Benítez, applied anthropologist specialized in nomadic-tradition peoples and their ecosystems

"I was born in the southern Spanish city of Málaga in 1962, and since a very early age I began to dream with nomads, East Asia and grasslands. Later, I moved to Canary islands and then to Valencia to study Fine Arts, following my passion for oil painting and the classical masters such as Velazquez and Rembrandt. After some years I become a government official to get a financial stability. Then I started to travel abroad as a tourist and mountaineer too, and these first trips were key to feed my interest for biocultural diversity.
Besides living in Malaga, Tenerife, Valencia, Madrid, Zaragoza, Granada and Plasencia in Spain, I have also lived in Edinburgh (Scotland) and Chengdu (China). During this period of time and thanks to serveral unpaid leaves I could visit more than 30 countries in search of the nomadic heritage, highlighting Chile, Bolivia, Argentine and Peru in America; Namibia, Botswana, Kenya, Uganda and Morocco in Africa; and Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, Mongolia, China, Nepal, India, Thailand and Vietnam in Asia. 
As a visual artist, I have participated in some exhibitions (Salamanca, Plasencia, Amsterdam) and sold a limited stock of artworks. 

As a social researcher I has carried out some fieldwork campaigns 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, serving at the same time to gain a specialization in the High Asia environment and culture. More recently, I 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".

Experience on the field
  • Patagonia-Tierra de Fuego: Yaghan community in Villa Ukika (Navarino, Chile), Kaweshqar community in Punta Arenas (Chile), Selk´nam community in Tolhuin and Río Grande (Tierra de Fuego, Argentine), Tehuelche-Mapuche community in Esquel (Patagonia),
  • Andes-Amazonas: Kallawaya community in Charazani area (Altiplano, Bolivia), Yuqui community in Chimoré (
  • South Africa: Khoisan communities in Namibia (Nyae Nyae) and Botswana (Ganzi), Himba community in Kaokoveld (Namibia)
  • East Europe: Arumanian community in Greece (Samarina area)
  • India: 3 years research among Itinerant communities in Rajasthan and adjacent states (Gujarat, Uttar Pradesh)
  • China: 6 years research among the Khampa communities in East Tibet (Amdo, Kham), of Qinghai and Sichuan provinces, several campaigns among the Oroqen, Ewenki and Hezhe communities in North-East China (Inner Mongolia, Heilongjiang provinces)
  • High Asia: 2 years on the field (2006-2007) implementing the World Yak Herders Association project with funds of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
  • Global: currently implementing the Naturally NOMADS project, whose pilot project has already been completed, including fieldwork in Turkey, Georgia, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, India, Nepal, Thailand, Vietnam and Cambodia.

CONTACT  DETAILS:
Phone / whatsapp: +34 634773719
E- mail: sancarnomad@gmail.com
Skype: santiago.carralero

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YURTA Association
Non-profit organization based in Spain
Registred in Interior Ministery (Spain)  nº.
599318
CIF / VAT nº. G93180099

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