Raoni Bernardo Maranhão Valle

Raoni Valle graduated in History at the Universidade Federal de Pernambuco (2000) and obtained a master's degree in History from the same university (2003), focussed on Brazilian Prehistory and rock art research. He studied at some length the petroglyphs in the semiarid hinterlands of northeastern Brazil while beginning to delve into Indigenist activism amid Native peoples. A few years later, in 2005 moved to Amazonia, developing stronger ties with Indigenous peoples while keeping a rock art archaeological focus, increasingly taking Indigenous perspectives into account. In 2012 he concluded his doctoral research on Amazonian petroglyphs at the Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology (MAE) of the University of São Paulo (USP). Between 2002 and 2019, conducted extensive ethnoarchaeological and community-based participatory research with indigenous groups from the Brazilian Northeast and Amazonia, such as Xukurú do Ororubá, Kambiwá, Potiguara, Tremembé de Almofala, Mura, Munduruku, Zo'é, Tuyuka, Tukano, Baniwa. Since 2015, he has consistently published in co-authorship with Indigenous researchers on the theme of rock art's Indigenous knowledge, following an inter-epistemic approach, hybridizing Western and Indigenous knowledge perspectives as a decolonial research strategy. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)