Taynã Tagliati

Taynã Tagliati is a PhD Researcher at the Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies (BCDSS), University of Bonn, Germany, specializing in Indigenous epistemologies through the Research Group 'Marking Power: Embodied Dependencies, Haptic Regimes and Body Modification'. Her work interrogates Kayapó ontologies in Central Brazil's deforestation frontier using multispecies frameworks.

Her academic trajectory includes:

• Ph.D. in Anthropology of the Americas (2020–present, University of Bonn)
• M.A. in Anthropology of the Americas (2018–2020, University of Bonn)
• B.A. in Social Sciences (Anthropology focus, 2012–2017, Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil)

Tagliati's research pioneers embodied ethnography examining how Kayapó communities materialize relationships with other-than-humans via body modification, ritual objects, and resistance to capitalist extraction. She reframes German museums as multispecies contact zones where colonial legacies intersect with Indigenous agency, emphasizing sentient knowledge systems and haptic technologies for world-making amid ecological collapse. Her methodology centers oral histories and fieldwork in Kayapó villages, challenging anthropocentric museum paradigms.

Publications reveal cohesive interdisciplinary threads: decolonizing museology (2022), Amazonian Indigenous materiality (2025), and Brazilian political ecology (2017–2018). Key trends include retheorizing dependency through Indigenous cosmologies, analyzing green capitalism's impact on embodied knowledge, and documenting resistance via transportation networks and strikes. Her work bridges anthropology, archaeology, and political theory to confront epistemicide in the Anthropocene.

Scientific recognition includes:

• PROMOS Scholarship (2020) for fieldwork in Trinidad, Bolivia
• Erasmus+ Scholarship (2016–2017) at University of Hradec Králové, Czech Republic

She actively shapes academic discourse as co-editor of 'Transforming Spirit Bodies' (2025), organizational lead for 'Notas de Antropología de las Américas' journal, and curator of exhibitions like '500 Jahre Eroberung Amerikas' (2019). Current projects involve the Transdisciplinary Research Area 'Present Pasts' and documenting Kayapó resistance strategies against Amazonian destruction through embodied knowledge systems.