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Category: Native American
16/11/09
02:28:49, by Lorenz 
. Categories: indigenous people / minorities, Us and Them, Latin- and Central America, medical anthropology / ethnobothany, Native American, journal articles / papers Where shamans understand colonialism as sickness
"I am here to save the people, to cure the people. In the city they are all sick, they are all domesticated. The shaman has to go together with disease."
Anthropologist Anders Burman talks to Don Carlos, an Aymara shaman in Bolivia. According to D… more »
25/09/08
20:54:49, by Lorenz . Categories: indigenous people / minorities, Us and Them, Latin- and Central America, Native American, media In Norwegian TV: Indian tribe paid to go naked to appear more primitive
(Norwegian version) In the reality program «Den store reisen» (Ticket to the tribes), a Norwegian family moved in with Waorani-indians in Banemo, Ecuador. The TV-pictures show people who go naked and live "primitively". What the TVstation NRK fails to me… more »
23/09/08
03:27:59, by Lorenz . Categories: indigenous people / minorities, culture traditions, development empowerment, books, Northern America, Native American How gaming wealth is reviving American Indian traditions
Gaming is big business for many Native American tribes. For the Seminole tribe in Florida, gaming wealth enabled them to revive traditions and celebrate their culture in previously unimaginable ways, anthropologist Jessica R. Cattelino writes in her new… more »
29/08/08
00:00:45, by Lorenz . Categories: Latin- and Central America, ecology nature, Native American, journal articles / papers "Untouched" Amazone hosted large cities - a model for the future?
The myth of the "untouched" Amazone is popular. But areas that look pristine today have been the home of large urban areas, anthropologist Michael Heckenberger has found out already five years ago.
In a new paper that was published today in Science h… more »
22/08/08
Native American Tribe Allows Gay Marriage
Gay marriage is banned in Oregon and the most states in the U.S. But if you are gay and Native Indian you are lucky: The Coquille Indian Tribe on the southern Oregon coast recently adopted a law that recognizes same-sex marriage.
The law extends to g… more »
03/07/08
01:38:26, by Lorenz . Categories: indigenous people / minorities, Us and Them, Native American, media "Tribal wives" - Pseudo-anthropology by BBC?
The BBC has sent six British women to be "second wives" to so-called "tribesmen" in - according to the BBC "some of the world's most remote communities". "Any anthropologist feels pleased when the hidden peoples of the world get a chance to appear on tel… more »
04/06/08
02:26:23, by Lorenz . Categories: indigenous people / minorities, Us and Them, Latin- and Central America, globalisation, Native American, media The Double Standards of the "Uncontacted Tribes" Circus
The story of the so-called "uncontacted tribes" in the Amazon has made its way around the world (even to Norway!). At the same time, there is a complete lack of interest in the story of indigenous people being publicly humiliated in Bolivia, the CultureM… more »
04/04/08
12:21:26, by Lorenz . Categories: language, inuit, Native American, Arctic / Northern Regions, history Discovered the first-ever linguistic link between Siberia and Canada
While studying an ancient language now spoken by only a few hundred people in a remote corner of Siberia, linguist Edward Vajda has found the first-ever linguistic link between the Old World and any First Nation in Canada, the Ottawa Citizen reports. "T… more »
30/03/08
15:51:51, by Lorenz . Categories: technology, development empowerment, fieldwork / methods, Native American, Caribbean, journal articles / papers, cyberanthropology, internet, websites Another way of doing fieldwork: Developing websites with your informants!
Indigenous communities have embraced the internet from early on. The website of the Oneida Indian Nation was set up before the website for the White House. Anthropologist Maximilian C. Forte has developped several websites in collaboration with indigenou… more »
28/10/07
19:54:04, by Lorenz . Categories: Open Access Anthropology and Knowledge Sharing, Native American, anthropology (general), journal articles / papers Now online: Up to 100 year old anthropology papers
(via Museum Anthropology) More and more open access to anthropology online: The American Museum of Natural History has digitalized their up to 100 year old Anthropological Papers and put them online.
We find both more recent papers like Green revolu… more »
30/09/07
13:56:15, by Lorenz . Categories: indigenous people / minorities, Us and Them, Latin- and Central America, Native American Peru: Another "uncontacted tribe"?
"Ecologists have photographed a little-known nomadic tribe deep in Peru's Amazon, a sighting that could intensify debate about the presence of isolated Indians as oil firms line up to explore the jungle", the Vancouver Sun writes. But Suzanne Oakdale, an… more »
28/08/07
00:37:45, by Lorenz . Categories: technology, culture traditions, language, Native American, Arctic / Northern Regions, internet, websites New website helps save Kenai Peoples language (Alaska)
Their language is nearly dead. Maybe a new website can revitalize Kahtnuht'ana Qenaga: The Kenai Peoples Language in Alaska? For more than two years, the two anthropologists Alan Boraas and Michael Christian have taken pictures, navigated through HTML an… more »
22/06/07
13:50:18, by Lorenz . Categories: culture traditions, Latin- and Central America, Native American, ethics Infanticide: "We are fighting against anthropologists"
Babies born into some Indian societies in the Amazon are being buried alive, a practice that is being covered up by the Brazilian authorities and anthropologists "out of respect for tribal culture" according to the Telegraph. "We are fighting against doc… more »
27/08/06
21:38:10, by Lorenz . Categories: indigenous people / minorities, politics, Latin- and Central America, Native American Bolivia: More and more indigenous influence on politics
President Evo Morales, Bolivia's first indigenous head of state, is holding up indigenous values of common ownership and consensus decision-making as a model for his country, the Miami Herald / Latin American Post reports. Morales frequently spells out w… more »
08/12/05
01:23:11, by Lorenz . Categories: indigenous people / minorities, Native American, anthropology (general) AAA: "Expanding willingness among anthropologists to listen to Native peoples"
For decades, a stereotypical and frequently inaccurate mindset dominated the way anthropologists and museum curators treated Native Americans in research and exhibits. But several attendees on this year’s American Anthropological Association conference n… more »
29/09/05
23:57:07, by Lorenz . Categories: indigenous people / minorities, Latin- and Central America, fieldwork / methods, poverty, Native American, journal articles / papers Ethnic hybridity within identity politics: Thesis on Being A Nobel Savage in Brazil
Interesting thesis in social anthropology by Knut Olav Krohn Lakså. The thesis has recently been published in the Digital Library at the University of Oslo
Knut Olav Krohn Lakså conducted fieldwork among the Pataxó Indians in Brazil. He wanted to see… more »
19/09/05
23:59:05, by Lorenz . Categories: indigenous people / minorities, Us and Them, Northern America, Native American, history, Visual Anthropology, ethics On Savage Minds: Debate on the Construction of Indigenous Culture by Anthropologists
Early visual anthropologists produced a form of salvage anthropology that uncoupled "traditional" society from any form of change, Patrick Harries (University of Cape Town), writes in an article on the the history of visual anthropology in South Africa.… more »
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 »
02/09/05
19:07:19, by Lorenz . Categories: indigenous people / minorities, culture traditions, books, Northern America, Native American, journal articles / papers Book review: Who owns native culture - A book with an excellent website
Very interesting review by David Trigger in the August-edition of The Australian Journal of Anthropology. Michael F. Brown's book "Who Owns Native Culture?" discusses Indigenous assertions of ownership of cultural information. These can be in tension wi… 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 »
12/05/05
23:39:41, by Lorenz . Categories: indigenous people / minorities, Native American, anthropology (general), websites Another Anthro-Blog: FieldNotes - Occasional Musings on Anthropological Topics
(via my site statistics) FieldNotes is a brand new anthropology blog, the first entry was written only two weeks ago by its author Thomas ‘Tad’ McIlwraith, PhD Candidate in the Department of Anthropology at the University of New Mexico, in Albuquerque, N… more »
28/04/05
12:52:10, by Lorenz . Categories: indigenous people / minorities, Us and Them, Native American, ethics Gene Study Puts Indians on Guard
IPS News
Scientists involved in the Genographic Project will go in search of the genes of indigenous communities worldwide in a bid to decipher the puzzle of how ancient peoples were disseminated around the planet. Negative experiences in the past, cu… more »
06/04/05
01:09:17, by Lorenz . Categories: indigenous people / minorities, religion cosmology, culture traditions, Us and Them, Native American Indigenousness and the Politics of Spirituality
Sabina Magliocco, Anthropology News April 2005, American Anthropological Association
The commodification of indigenous spirituality is based on Romanticism’s construction of indigenes as more authentic, closer to nature and the sacred than Westerners;… 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 »
03/12/04
08:15:43, by Lorenz . Categories: indigenous people / minorities, politics, Native American, anthropology (general), ethics "When somebody's rights are diminished, as anthropologist, I have to speak out"
Lawrence Journal World
It seems more the stuff of an action movie than an anthropology professor's field work. But Kansas University professor Bart Dean found himself in the middle of a violent showdown between corrupt Peruvian officials and the indig… more »
24/11/04
New Compendium on Yanomami Language and Culture
IPS News
After 15 years of research, ”we have concentrated our efforts on producing something more useful and rich in information than a simple dictionary -- a book that can support the didactic measures that the Venezuelan society and state have the… more »
12/11/04
10:11:41, by Lorenz . Categories: indigenous people / minorities, Us and Them, Europe, migration, Native American, art Germans as Indians: Ethnographic images explore an unsettling cultural exchange
Boston Globe
Photographers Andrea Robbins and Max Becher, who have work up at the Bernard Toale Gallery, are anthropologists of a sort. They document explosions of one culture within another, which occur through migration, colonialism, but also throug… more »
10/11/04
08:07:05, by Lorenz . Categories: indigenous people / minorities, development empowerment, ecology nature, Native American Long battle between Argentine oil company and Ecuadorian indigenous community
IPS News
- Buenos Aires has unexpectedly become the new stage for a long-standing battle between an Argentine oil company and an Ecuadorian indigenous community fighting to defend its ancestral land rights in the Amazon rainforest.
Representatives… more »
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