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Ethnicity and Culture Amidst New "neighbors"

Author : Theodore Macdonald
Publisher : Pearson
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ethnicity and Culture Amidst New "neighbors" written by Theodore Macdonald and published by Pearson. This book was released on 1999 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides the reader with a story that has been many years in the making. It is the story of the Runa, a Quichua-speaking Indian population in Ecuador's Amazon region. It offers a window onto another culture, an illustration of the relationship between ethnicity and culture, and a story of the mobilization of an indigenous group. And when the reader arrives at the book's end, he or she will understand why the story is not merely shelved and finished, but is rather an ongoing tale that will continue for years to come. The author has been following the Runa's adaptation to continuous changes around and amongst them since 1974. When he first met the Runa, they were practicing swidden horticulture, hunting, fishing, and living their created culture while also reacting to external pressures imposed on them by newly arrived colonists and changing national legislation. This book follows the Runa from a passive accommodating society to an active organized group. The Runa thus became one of the early standard bearers in what is now a hemispheric social movement -- indigenous ethnic federations. These organizations have changed Latin America by successfully thrusting indigenous identities and concerns into the middle of national political arenas that previously marginalized and stigmatized them. Anthropologists or anyone interested in other cultures. Part of the New Immigrant's Series.

Defending the Land

Author : Ronald Niezen
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317348869
Total Pages : 137 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (173 download)

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Download or read book Defending the Land written by Ronald Niezen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-01-08 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Suitable for both introductory anthropology and upper-division courses in cultural anthropology The campaign of the Cree people to protect their forest culture from the impact of hydro-electric development in northern Quebec has been widely-documented. Few have heard in any detail about this campaign's outcome and impact upon indigenous societies' futures. This text gives equal attention to the Cree leadership's successful strategies for dealing with major social and environmental pressures with the forces of acculturation and native communities' social destruction. The titles in the Cultural Survival Studies in Ethnicity and Change series, edited by David Maybury-Lewis and Theodore Macdonald, Jr. of Cultural Survival, Inc., Harvard University, focus on key issues affecting indigenous and ethnic groups worldwide. Each ethnography builds on introductory material by going further in-depth and allowing students to explore, virtually first-hand, a particular issue and its impact on a culture.

At the Risk of Being Heard

Author : Bartholomew Dean
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 9780472067367
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (673 download)

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Download or read book At the Risk of Being Heard written by Bartholomew Dean and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An analysis of indigenous rights and the challenges confronting indigenous peoples in the twenty-first century

Messy Ethnographies in Action

Author : Alexandra Plows
Publisher : Vernon Press
ISBN 13 : 162273551X
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (227 download)

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Download or read book Messy Ethnographies in Action written by Alexandra Plows and published by Vernon Press. This book was released on 2019-02-04 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited collection of chapters showcases original and interdisciplinary ethnographic fieldwork in a range of international settings; including studies of underground pub life in North East England; Finnish hotels; and bio-scientific institutions in the Amazonian rainforest. Informed by John Law’s concept of ethnographic “mess,” this book makes a unique, empirically-informed, contribution to an understanding of the social construction of knowledge and the role that ethnography can and does play (Law, 2004). It provides a range of colourful snapshots from the field, showing how different researchers from multiple research environments and disciplines are negotiating the practicalities, and epistemological and ethical implications, of “messy” ethnographic practice as a means of researching “messy” social realities. Law notes that “social…science investigations interfere with the world…things change as a result. The issue, then, is not to seek disengagement but rather with how to engage” (ibid p14). Drawing on their own situated experiences, the book’s contributors address the “messy” implications of this and also explore the (equally messy) issue of why engage. They reflect on the process of undertaking research, and their role in the research process as they negotiate their own position in the field. What is ethnography “for”? What impact should, or do, we have in the field and after we leave the research site? What about unintended consequences? When (if ever) are we “off duty?” What does “informed consent” mean in a constantly shifting, dynamic ethnographic context? Is ethnography by its very nature a form of “action research?” By providing a wide range of situated explorations of “messy ethnographies,” the book presents a unique, hands-on guide to the challenges of negotiating ethnography in practice, which will be of use to all researchers and practitioners who use ethnography as a method.

Contemporary Indigenous Movements in Latin America

Author : Erick Detlef Langer
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 9780842026802
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (268 download)

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Download or read book Contemporary Indigenous Movements in Latin America written by Erick Detlef Langer and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2003 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The efforts of Indians in Latin America have gained momentum and garnered increasing attention in the last decade as they claim rights to their land and demand full participation in the political process. This issue is of rising importance as ecological concerns and autochtonous movements gain a foothold in Latin America, transforming the political landscape into one in which multiethnic democracies hold sway. In some cases, these movements have led to violent outbursts that severely affected some nations, such as the 1992 and 1994 Indian uprisings in Ecuador. In most cases, however, grassroots efforts have realized success without bloodshed. An Aymara Indian, head of an indigenous-rights political party, became Vice President of Bolivia. Brazilian lands are being set aside for indigenous groups not as traditional reservations where the government attempts to "civilize" the hunters and gatherers, but where the government serves only to keep loggers, gold miners, and other interlopers out of tribal lands. Contemporary Indigenous Movements in Latin America is a collection of essays compiled by Professor Erick D. Langer that brings together-for the first time-contributions on indigenous movements throughout Latin America from all regions. Focusing on the 1990s, Professor Langer illustrates the range and increasing significance of the Indian movements in Latin America. The volume addresses the ways in which Indians have confronted the political, social, and economic problems they face today, and shows the diversity of the movements, both in lowlands and in highlands, tribal peoples, and peasants. The book presents an analytical overview of these movements, as well as a vision of how and why they have become so important in the late twentieth century. Contemporary Indigenous Movements in Latin America is important for those interested in Latin American studies, including Latin American civilization, Latin American anthropology, contemporary issues in Latin America, and ethnic studies.

Ethnographies of Power

Author : Tristan Loloum
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 178920979X
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (892 download)

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Download or read book Ethnographies of Power written by Tristan Loloum and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2021-04-01 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Energy related infrastructures are crucial to political organization. They shape the contours of states and international bodies, as well as corporations and communities, framing their material existence and their fears and idealisations of the future. Ethnographies of Power brings together ethnographic studies of contemporary entanglements of energy and political power. Revisiting classic anthropological notions of power, it asks how changing energy related infrastructures are implicated in the consolidation, extension or subversion of contemporary political regimes and discovers what they tell us about politics today.

Global Indigeneities and the Environment

Author : Karen L. Thornber
Publisher : MDPI
ISBN 13 : 3038422401
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (384 download)

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Download or read book Global Indigeneities and the Environment written by Karen L. Thornber and published by MDPI. This book was released on 2018-09-27 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a printed edition of the Special Issue "Global Indigeneities and the Environment" that was published in Humanities

Countering Modernity

Author : Carolyn Smith-Morris
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1040087469
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book Countering Modernity written by Carolyn Smith-Morris and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-07-11 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume highlights and examines how Indigenous Peoples continue to inhabit the world in counter-modern ways. It illustrates how communalist practices and cooperative priorities of many Indigenous communities are simultaneously key to their cultural survival while being most vulnerable to post-colonial erasure. Chapters contributed by community collectives, elders, lawyers, scholars, multi-generational collaboratives, and others are brought together to highlight the communal and cooperative strategies that counter the modernizing tropes of capitalist, industrialist, and representational hegemonies. Furthermore, the authors of the book explicitly interrogate the roles of witness, collaborator, advocate, and community leader as they consider ethical relations in contexts of financialized global markets, ongoing land grabbing and displacement, epistemic violence, and post-colonial erasures. Lucid and topical, the book will be indispensable for students and scholars of anthropology, modernity, capitalism, history, sociology, human rights, minority studies, Indigenous studies, Asian studies, and Latin American studies.

Handbook of Latin American Studies, Vol. 61

Author : Lawrence Boudon
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 9780292712577
Total Pages : 846 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (125 download)

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Download or read book Handbook of Latin American Studies, Vol. 61 written by Lawrence Boudon and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2006-04-01 with total page 846 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The one source that sets reference collections on Latin American studies apart from all other geographic areas of the world.... The Handbook has provided scholars interested in Latin America with a bibliographical source of a quality unavailable to scholars in most other branches of area studies." —Latin American Research Review Beginning with volume 41 (1979), the University of Texas Press became the publisher of the Handbook of Latin American Studies, the most comprehensive annual bibliography in the field. Compiled by the Hispanic Division of the Library of Congress and annotated by a corps of more than 140 specialists in various disciplines, the Handbook alternates from year to year between social sciences and humanities. The Handbook annotates works on Mexico, Central America, the Caribbean and the Guianas, Spanish South America, and Brazil, as well as materials covering Latin America as a whole. Most of the subsections are preceded by introductory essays that serve as biannual evaluations of the literature and research under way in specialized areas. The Handbook of Latin American Studies is the oldest continuing reference work in the field. Lawrence Boudon, of the Library of Congress Hispanic Division, has been the editor since 2000, and Katherine D. McCann has been assistant editor since 1999. The subject categories for Volume 61 are as follows: AnthropologyEconomicsGeographyGovernment and PoliticsPolitical EconomyInternational RelationsSociology

Lessons from a Quechua Strongwoman

Author : Janis B. Nuckolls
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
ISBN 13 : 0816501793
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (165 download)

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Download or read book Lessons from a Quechua Strongwoman written by Janis B. Nuckolls and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2010-09-15 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using the intriguing stories and words of a Quechua-speaking woman named Luisa Cadena from the Pastaza Province of Ecuador, Janis B. Nuckolls reveals a complex language system in which ideophony, dialogue, and perspective are all at the core of cultural and grammatical communications among Amazonian Quechua speakers. This book is a fascinating look at ideophones—words that communicate succinctly through imitative sound qualities. They are at the core of Quechua speakers’ discourse—both linguistic and cultural—because they allow agency and reaction to substances and entities as well as beings. Nuckolls shows that Luisa Cadena’s utterances give every individual, major or minor, a voice in her narrative. Sometimes as subtle as a barely felt movement or unintelligible sound, the language supports an amazingly wide variety of voices. Cadena’s narratives and commentaries on everyday events reveal that sound imitation through ideophones, representations of dialogues between humans and nonhumans, and grammatical distinctions between a speaking self and an other are all part of a language system that allows for the possibility of shared affects, intentions, moral values, and meaningful, communicative interactions between humans and nonhumans.

Fair Trade and Social Justice

Author : Sarah Lyon
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 0814796214
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (147 download)

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Download or read book Fair Trade and Social Justice written by Sarah Lyon and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2010-06-28 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Heroic Desire performs its title--bold, challenging, seductive, and compelling--a vital and exciting addition to the discourse on lesbian identities, their dissolves and perpetual becomings. Sure to incite and inspire." —Lynda Hart, Author of Fatal Women: Lesbian Sexuality and the Mark of Aggression "Right on the edge of exciting and daring new writing on lesbian representation. Moving beyond post- modernism's rejection of identity politics, Munt draws on a wealth of scholarship and personal reflection to refigure the heroic narrative in the service of lesbian liberation strategies. A thoughtful and thought- provoking book." —Esther Newton , State University of New York, Purchase "In Heroic Desire Sally Munt revisits identity politics through the figure of the lesbian hero. The result is one of the most exciting works of lesbian theory to appear in years. Written in a strong and engaging personal voice, Heroic Desire will excite, provoke, enlighten, and entertain the reader with this original insights into questions of lesbian identity, culture, and community." —Bonnie Zimmerman, San Diego State University

Forest Dwellers, Forest Protectors

Author : Richard Reed
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317348230
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (173 download)

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Download or read book Forest Dwellers, Forest Protectors written by Richard Reed and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-09-07 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Guarani of Paraguay have survived over four centuries of contact with the commercial system, while keeping in tact their traditions of leadership, religion and kinship. This concise ethnography examines how the Guarani have adapted over time, in concert with Paraguay’s subtropical forest system. New To This Edition: Expanded historical background and updated demographic information on the Guarani brings the research to the present day (Chapter 1). Expands and strengthens the discussion of “sustainability” to include more recent advances in the concept (Chapter 1), and introduces the idea of “subsidy from nature” into the discussion of conventional tropical development (Chapter 3). Develops the discussion of women’s labor in horticulture (Chapter 3). Analyzes the effects of indigenous mixed agro-forestry in stemming the high rates of Paraguayan deforestation of the 1990s (Chapter 4). Discusses the recent globalization of the yerba mate market, and the economy's effecton Paraguay’s protected areas (Chapter 4). Describes Guarani ethnic federations as a means to engage the national and international political institutions (Chapter 4). Explores the rapid growth in Guarani population in native communities, which results from lower infant mortality, more land pressure and more reliable census data (Chapter 4). This brief introductory text makes the ideal supplementary text for students of anthropology.

Governing Indigenous Territories

Author : Juliet S. Erazo
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 0822378922
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (223 download)

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Download or read book Governing Indigenous Territories written by Juliet S. Erazo and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2013-07-18 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Governing Indigenous Territories illuminates a paradox of modern indigenous lives. In recent decades, native peoples from Alaska to Cameroon have sought and gained legal title to significant areas of land, not as individuals or families but as large, collective organizations. Obtaining these collective titles represents an enormous accomplishment; it also creates dramatic changes. Once an indigenous territory is legally established, other governments and organizations expect it to act as a unified political entity, making decisions on behalf of its population and managing those living within its borders. A territorial government must mediate between outsiders and a not-always-united population within a context of constantly shifting global development priorities. The people of Rukullakta, a large indigenous territory in Ecuador, have struggled to enact sovereignty since the late 1960s. Drawing broadly applicable lessons from their experiences of self-rule, Juliet S. Erazo shows how collective titling produces new expectations, obligations, and subjectivities within indigenous territories.

Millennial Ecuador

Author : Norman E Whitten
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
ISBN 13 : 1587294486
Total Pages : 439 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (872 download)

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Download or read book Millennial Ecuador written by Norman E Whitten and published by University of Iowa Press. This book was released on 2003-12 with total page 439 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the past decade, Ecuador has seen five indigenous uprisings, the emergence of the powerful Pachakutik political movement, and the strengthening of the Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of Ecuador and the Association of Black Ecuadorians, all of which have contributed substantially to a new constitution proclaiming the country to be “multiethnic and multicultural.” Furthermore, January 2003 saw the inauguration of a new populist president, who immediately appointed two indigenous persons to his cabinet. In this volume, eleven critical essays plus a lengthy introduction and a timely epilogue explore the multicultural forces that have allowed Ecuador's indigenous peoples to have such dramatic effects on the nation's political structure.

Multiple Medical Realities

Author : Helle Johannessen
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 1789205743
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (892 download)

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Download or read book Multiple Medical Realities written by Helle Johannessen and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2005-12-01 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nowadays a plethora of treatment technologies is available to the consumer, each employing a variety of concepts of the body, self, sickness and healing. This volume explores the options, strategies and consequences that are both relevant and necessary for patients and practitioners who are manoeuvring this medical plurality. Although wideranging in scope and covering areas as diverse as India, Ecuador, Ghana and Norway, central to all contributions is the observation that technologies of healing are founded on socially learned and to some extent fluid experiences of body and self.

Evolving European Perceptions Amidst Asian Neighbours

Author : David Hall
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 9819723930
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (197 download)

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Download or read book Evolving European Perceptions Amidst Asian Neighbours written by David Hall and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Victims and Warriors

Author : Casey High
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 0252097025
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book Victims and Warriors written by Casey High and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2015-03-30 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1956, a group of Waorani men killed five North American missionaries in Ecuador. The event cemented the Waorani's reputation as ""wild Amazonian Indians"" in the eyes of the outside world. It also added to the myth of the violent Amazon created by colonial writers and still found in academia and the state development agendas across the region. Victims and Warriors examines contemporary violence in the context of political and economic processes that transcend local events. Casey High explores how popular imagery of Amazonian violence has become part of Waorani social memory in oral histories, folklore performances, and indigenous political activism. As Amazonian forms of social memory merge with constructions of masculinity and other intercultural processes, the Waorani absorb missionaries, oil development, and logging depredations into their legacy of revenge killings and narratives of victimhood. High shows that these memories of past violence form sites of negotiation and cultural innovation, and thus violence comes to constitute a central part of Amazonian sociality, identity, and memory.