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Category: Latin- and Central America
11/09/05
18:31:39, by Lorenz 
. Categories: indigenous people / minorities, Us and Them, Africa, Europe, Latin- and Central America, books, Northern America, migration, Native American, anthropology (general), music American Ethnologist - New book reviews on Indian Resurgence in Brazil, Anthropology of Britain, Race and Transnationalism
The August reviews of the journal American Ethnologist are now online.
Among them we'll find:
Mapping Yoruba Networks: Power and Agency in the Making of Transnational Communities. By: Kamari Maxine Clarke
Kamari Clarke is an Afro-Canadian who join… more »
10/08/05
12:38:55 am, by Lorenz . Categories: indigenous people / minorities, Latin- and Central America, development empowerment, Native American Indigenous Peoples' Day: New Universities for a Multicultural Mexico
IPS
- Seven intercultural universities in Mexico are going a long way towards preserving the historical and cultural roots of the country's indigenous community, which comprises more than 10 percent of the country's 106 million people. The universitie… more »
21/06/05
23:24:39, by Lorenz . Categories: indigenous people / minorities, politics, religion cosmology, Latin- and Central America, Native American Islam Is Gaining a Foothold in Chiapas / Red Alert in Chiapas
Der Spiegel
Long a bastion of Catholicism, southern Mexico is quickly turning into a battleground for soul-savers. Islam, too, is gaining a foothold and the indigenous Mayans are converting by the hundreds. "In Islam, race plays no role," Anastasio Go… more »
02/03/05
17:51:14, by Lorenz . Categories: indigenous people / minorities, Us and Them, Latin- and Central America, Native American, persons and theories, media Disney-Film depicts indigenous people as involved in cannibalism
IPS
The producers of "Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl" are eagerly gearing up to film the sequels. But the project, due to be released on Jul. 7, 2006, is already proving to be a problem, as the descendants of the Caribs, histor… more »
27/02/05
23:38:45, by Lorenz . Categories: indigenous people / minorities, Latin- and Central America, language, Native American, media UPDATED - The future lies behind: How languages reflect our conception of time
Laura Spinney, The Guardian
For the Aymara people living in the Andes, the past lies ahead and the future lies behind. The Aymara word for past is transcribed as nayra , which literally means eye, sight or front. The word for future is q"ipa , which t… more »
18/09/04
10:06:05, by Lorenz . Categories: indigenous people / minorities, Latin- and Central America, Native American Mexico: Pride in Indigenous Heritage - Literally a Thing of the Past
IPS News Service
Mexico's National Museum of Anthropology and History (MNAH), one of the ten most important institutions of its kind in the world, is celebrating its 40th anniversary with cocktail receptions and new exhibitions. Sadly, however, there… more »
29/08/04
14:39:19, by Lorenz . Categories: indigenous people / minorities, religion cosmology, Latin- and Central America Missionaries focus their efforts on the most remote indigenous groups on earth
RICHARD N. OSTLING, The Associated Press
The Missions Institute of New Tribes Mission specializes in evangelism among the 3,000 indigenous groups in the world’s remotest tracts, places that remain isolated from the outside world and thus untouched by… more »
20/08/04
09:38:14, by Lorenz . Categories: Latin- and Central America, language, Native American, persons and theories Researchers claim to have solved the mystery of the people who don't count
The Guardian
The Piraha of the Amazon have almost legendary status in language research. They have no words at all for number. They use only only three words to count: one, two, many. To make things confusing, the words for one and two, in Piraha, are… more »
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