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Journal articles on the topic "Indigenous Amazonian Anthropology"
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Oakdale, S. "History and Forgetting in an Indigenous Amazonian Community." Ethnohistory 48, no. 3 (July 1, 2001): 381–401. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/00141801-48-3-381.
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Oakley, R. Elliott. "Demarcated pens and dependent pets: Conservation livelihoods in an indigenous Amazonian protected area." Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology 25, no. 2 (June 2020): 248–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jlca.12479.
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Balée, William. "Indigenous Transformation of Amazonian Forests : An Example from Maranhão, Brazil." L'Homme 33, no. 126 (1993): 231–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.3406/hom.1993.369639.
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Schmidt, Morgan. "Amazonian Dark Earths: pathways to sustainable development in tropical rainforests?" Boletim do Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi. Ciências Humanas 8, no. 1 (April 2013): 11–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/s1981-81222013000100002.
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Fertile dark anthrosols associated with pre-Columbian settlement across the Amazon Basin have sparked wide interest for their potential contribution to sustainable use and management of tropical soils and ecosystems. In the Upper Xingu region of the southern Amazon, research on archaeological settlements and among contemporary descendant populations provides critical new data on the formation and use of anthrosols. These findings provide a basis for describing the variability of soil modifications that result from diverse human activities and a general model for the formation of Amazonian anthrosols. They underscore the potential for indigenous systems of knowledge and resource management to inform efforts for conservation and sustainable development of Amazonian ecosystems.
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Augustat, Claudia, and Wolfgang Kapfhammer. "Looking back ahead: a short history of collaborative work with indigenous source communities at the Weltmuseum Wien." Boletim do Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi. Ciências Humanas 12, no. 3 (December 2017): 749–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/1981.81222017000300005.
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Abstract In the last few years, collaborating with representatives of indigenous communities became an important topic for European ethnographic museums. The Weltmuseum Wien (former Museum of Ethnology Vienna, Austria) adheres to this form of sharing cultural heritage. Its Brazilian collection offers rich opportunities to back up Amazonian cultures in their struggle for cultural survival. However, to establish collaborative work in a European museum on a sustained basis is still a difficult endeavor. The article will discuss the projects which have been realized during the past five years with several groups from Amazonia, such as the Warí, Kanoé, Makushí, Shipibo and Sateré-Mawé. Projects were carried out in Austria, Brazil, and Guyana and ranged from short visit to longer periods of co-curating an exhibition. As for the Museum, results are documented in the collection, in two exhibitions and in the accompanying catalogues. It is less clear what the indigenous communities might take away from such collaborations. It will be argued that museum collaborations can help establish a new contact zone, ‘indoors’ and ‘outdoors’, in which members of heritage communities are able to break through the silence in the old contact zone and finally make their own voices heard.
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Hill, Jonathan D. "Alienated targets military discourse and the disempowerment of indigenous Amazonian peoples in Venezuela." Identities 1, no. 1 (June 1994): 7–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1070289x.1994.9962493.
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Petschelies, Erik. "KARL VON DEN STEINEN'S ETHNOGRAPHY IN THE CONTEXT OF THE BRAZILIAN EMPIRE." Sociologia & Antropologia 8, no. 2 (August 2018): 543–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/2238-38752017v828.
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Abstract The beginnings of systematic ethnography in Brazil can be attributed to the German physician and psychiatrist Karl von den Steinen, who in 1884 led the first expedition to the Amazonian River Xingu. The ethnographies Durch Central-Brasilien (1886) and its sequel Unter den Naturvölkern Zentral-Brasiliens (1894), about the expedition from 1887 to 1888, made him the world's leading expert on Brazilian indigenous peoples. This article seeks to explore von den Steinen's expeditions and their results within a specific political and cultural context. On the one hand, his theoretical approach was related to German ethnology and anthropology. On the other, the expeditions took place in the context of the indigenous policy of the Brazilian Empire. The Brazilian government provided material aid and military staff, because it had interests in the researches, although these interests at times were conflictive. This article's objective is to contribute to a historical analysis of the political conditions of ethnography.
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Pinedo, Danny. "The making of the Amazonian subject: state formation and indigenous mobilization in lowland Peru." Latin American and Caribbean Ethnic Studies 12, no. 1 (January 2, 2017): 2–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17442222.2016.1270537.
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Uzendoski. "Cannibal Conquerors and Ancestors: The Aesthetics of Struggle in Indigenous Amazonian Storytelling from Ecuador." Storytelling, Self, Society 16, no. 1 (2020): 61. http://dx.doi.org/10.13110/storselfsoci.16.1.0061.
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Steele, Diana. "Higher Education and Urban Migration for Community Resilience: Indigenous Amazonian Youth Promoting Place-Based Livelihoods and Identities in Peru." Anthropology & Education Quarterly 49, no. 1 (January 15, 2018): 89–105. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/aeq.12233.
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Labriola, Christine. "Environment, Culture, and Medicinal Plant Knowledge in an Indigenous Amazonian Community." FIU Digital Commons, 2009. http://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/143.
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Diminishing cultural and biological diversity is a current global crisis. Tropical forests and indigenous peoples are adversely affected by social and environmental changes caused by global political and economic systems. The purpose of this thesis was to investigate environmental and livelihood challenges as well as medicinal plant knowledge in a Yagua village in the Peruvian Amazon. Indigenous peoples’ relationships with the environment is an important topic in environmental anthropology, and traditional botanical knowledge is an integral component of ethnobotany. Political ecology provides a useful theoretical perspective for understanding the economic and political dimensions of environmental and social conditions. This research utilized a variety of ethnographic, ethnobotanical, and community-involved methods. Findings include data and analyses about the community’s culture, subsistence and natural resource needs, organizations and institutions, and medicinal plant use. The conclusion discusses the case study in terms of the disciplinary framework and offers suggestions for research and application.
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Lopez, Pila Esther. "Constructions of Tacana indigeneity : regionalism, race and indigenous politics in Amazonian Bolivia." Thesis, University of Sussex, 2014. http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/48891/.
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This dissertation is based on eighteen months of field work in Amazonian Bolivia, and situated in the discourse around the construction of indigenous identity in a neoliberal state. It focusses on a lowland people and their historical and contemporary relationship to the state which is aligned to the contemporary indigenous movement. It does this through an ethnographic and historical study of Tacana people, members of an indigenous group who originate in the tropical piedmont of the Bolivian Andes. A central focus of the work is on the relationships which Tacana people have built with different ethnic, social and political groups in their territory. This focus helps to elucidate the overarching issue at the centre of the thesis: the tensions between the Tacana and other indigenous groups, namely highland Aymara and Quechua who have migrated into the region (colonos). The relationship between Tacana and colonos has become increasingly conflictive since the advent of Bolivia's first indigenous president, Evo Morales, which emphasizes its origins in Bolivia's strong highland-lowland regionalism. This thesis therefore also examines the strong regionalist sentiments found in Bolivia, as expressed in the contrasting concepts of camba (lowland) and colla (highland) which are themselves further tied to more recent efforts to forge local identities, such as an Amazonian identity. The thesis shows how these efforts, which transgress local, historical and racial boundaries, entail an implicit criticism by lowland populations of the government in the Andes. A related point is that constructions of race and mestizaje have developed differently in the highlands and lowlands. Through a close analysis of such racial relationships the thesis shows how lowland groups such as the Tacana more readily align with lowland mestizo people than with other indigenous groups, especially those who originate in the highlands. Democratization processes and neoliberal policy changes have created spaces for tensions to take shape here and become clearer by discussions around identity, heritage and belonging, brought up by the indigenous movement and heavily informed by NGOs.
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Villamar, Roger Maurice. "Guaman Poma's Legacy: Snapshots of Globalization, Identity, and Literacy through the Urban Amazonian Indigenous Intellectual Lens." Scholar Commons, 2014. https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/5145.
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This dissertation initially utilizes the analogy of an Andean intellectual's magnum opus of resistant visual art and text created in the 1600s, to explore the impact of current global influences on the identity of Awajún and Wampís Amazonian students residing in Lima, the capital city of Perú. The participants in this study are urban Amazonian indigenous intellectuals applying to enter, currently studying in degree programs, or pursuing graduate degrees at local universities of Lima. Using an amalgamation of Photovoice and Photo-Elicitation components, digital photography, open-source applications, and computer technology, participants creatively expressed through their visual discourse what it means to be an Awajún or Wampís citizen of Perú during difficult times of conflictive global interests and unattended local needs. Between the time of preliminary fieldwork in the Amazonian communities in 2008, and the final interviews in Lima of 2010, violence erupted during a local road blockade in the Amazon that claimed the lives of Awajún/Wampís citizens and mestizo police officers alike. It is in that convoluted context where the dissertation delves into the views of the students and professionals regarding their own indigenousness, nationality, and "new" literacies, languages, and technologies that should be considered by the mestizo population and governments in order to make Perú a safer and more inclusive place for indigenous peoples from the Amazon.
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Urlacher, Samuel Scott. "Growing Up Shuar: Life History Tradeoffs and Energy Allocation in the Context of Physical Growth Among an Indigenous Amazonian Population." Thesis, Harvard University, 2016. http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:33493603.
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Life history theory assumes that organisms allocate energetic resources (i.e., calories) to primary life functions such as maintenance, growth, reproduction, and physical activity in a manner that maximizes fitness. Under this conceptual framework, energy is limited, resource allocation is dynamic, and functional tradeoffs between competing metabolic processes are expected to occur. Life history tradeoffs have been invoked to explain biological variation across a range of species and ecological contexts. However, few studies have examined patterns of energy allocation and tradeoffs during human development, restricting fundamental understandings of human life history, phenotypic plasticity, and health.
This dissertation investigates human energy allocation and life history tradeoffs in the context of physical growth among the Shuar, a small-scale indigenous population from Amazonian Ecuador. Mixed-longitudinal anthropometric data were collected from 2,553 Shuar between the ages of 0-29 years. Additional market integration (i.e., production for and consumption from a market-based economy) and immune activity (i.e., finger-prick blood biomarker) data were obtained from a subset of children and adolescents. Analysis was performed to explore variation in physical growth at the population, regional, household, and individual levels.
Results demonstrate that, as a population, the Shuar grow significantly more slowly than international references and experience several unique developmental characteristics that may be explained by energetic life history tradeoffs. Between-individual variation in Shuar growth, however, is substantial. A large portion of this variation is explained by household-level market integration factors associated with differences in diet, lifestyle, and pathogen exposure. Among Shuar children, linear growth is negatively related to several diverse biomarkers of immune function, such that growth is reduced by as much as 83% during intermittent periods of elevated immune activity. These tradeoffs occur over timeframes as short as one week and are typically avoided by children with adequate energy reserves (i.e., high levels of subcutaneous body fat). Taken together, these findings provide evidence for an important role of energetic tradeoffs in shaping patterns of human ontogeny and health.Human Evolutionary Biology
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Blackwell, Aaron D. 1978. "Life history trade-offs in growth and immune function: The behavioral and immunological ecology of the Shuar of Amazonian Ecuador, an indigenous population in the midst of rapid economic and ecological change." Thesis, University of Oregon, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/1794/10546.
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xxi, 234 p. : ill. (some col.) A print copy of this thesis is available through the UO Libraries. Search the library catalog for the location and call number.Life history theory examines the allocation of resources among competing demands, including growth, immune function, and reproduction. Immune function can itself be divided into innate, cell mediated, and humoral responses. For humans, factors like economic condition, disease exposure. and social milieu are all hypothesized to affect life history allocations. For the Shuar of Amazonian Ecuador these factors are rapidly changing as traditional subsistence hunting and horticulture give way to wage labor and Western medicine. This dissertation presents fieldwork conducted amongst the Shuar between 2005 and 2009. It is among the first studies to test for life history trade-offs between different branches of immunity and growth across market conditions. Shuar data include anthropometrics (n=1,547), biomarkers (n=163), and household compositions (n=292). Comparison samples include the Shiwiar of Ecuador (n=42), non-indigenous Ecuadorian colono children (n=570), the Tsimane of Bolivia (n=329), and the 2005-2006 U.S. NHANES (n=8,336). The dissertation finds significant differences between both populations and Shuar villages in growth and immunity. Increasing market integration is associated with poorer growth, but household factors mediate these changes. Adult males have positive effects on child growth in acculturated areas with wage labor and in distant areas where fishing and hunting remain important but not in intermediate areas. Children have consistent negative effects on one another's growth, suggesting competition for resources. Poorer growth is also associated with higher levels of immunoglobulin E (IgE), a humoral response to helminths. In contrast, C-reactive protein, an inflammatory marker, has a positive association with growth. This divergence between humoral and innate immunity is consistent with a lasting reallocation of immune resources towards a T H 2 response in helminth infected individuals. The age-profile of IgE also varies across market conditions: comparing the Shuar with samples from the U.S. and Bolivia, the age of peak IgE is correlated with the level of peak IgE in each population, providing some of the first evidence for a "peak shift" in immune response. Overall, these results support the hypothesis that local conditions lead to the adaptive "tuning" of trade-offs between branches of immunity and growth. This dissertation includes previously published and unpublished co-authored material.
Committee in charge: Lawrence Sugiyama, Chairperson, Anthropology; James Snodgrass, Member, Anthropology; Frances White, Member, Anthropology; John Orbell, Outside Member, Political Science
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García, Serrano Fernando. "Territorialidad y autonomía, proyectos minero-energéticos y consulta previa: el caso de los pueblos indígenas de la Amazonía ecuatoriana." Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, 2014. http://repositorio.pucp.edu.pe/index/handle/123456789/78739.
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A partir de la revisión de dos ámbitos de la relación Estado/pueblos indígenas —esto es, territorialidad y autonomía, proyectos minero energéticosy consulta previa—, se pretende analizar los avances, retrocesos y vaciamientos vividos en esta relación durante el período 1990-2013, con el fin de aportar a la discusión de esta problemática en los demás países que viven circunstancias semejantes enAmérica Latina. Especial importancia tienen para el caso ecuatoriano las constituciones de 1998 y 2008, en las cuales se reconoció el carácter pluricultural y pluriétnico del Estado ecuatoriano en la primera, yel carácter plurinacional e intercultural en la segunda. Asimismo, el movimiento indígena, desde su surgimiento como actor en la política nacional desde 1990, no solo ha sido pionero y referente en la región, sino que ha sido impugnador del proceso de extractivismo llevado adelante por el Estado.From the review of two areas of relative state / indigenous peoples, territoriality, mining and energy projects and consultation, is to analyze the progress, setbacks and dissections lived in this relationshipduring the period 1990-2013, to contribute to the discussion of this problem in other countries experiencing similar circumstancesin Latin America. Of particular importance is the case of Ecuador to the constitutions of 1998 and 2008, in which the multiethnic and multicultural nature of the Ecuadorian State acknowledged at the first, and the plurinational and intercultural character in the second. Likewise, the indigenous movement since its emergence as an actor in national politics since 1990, has not only been a pioneer and leader in the region, but has been challenger extractivismo process carried outby the state.
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Teixeira, Nilza Silvana Nogueira. "Cestaria, noções matemáticas e grafismo indígenas na prática das artesãs Ticuna do alto Solimões." Universidade Federal do Amazonas, 2012. http://tede.ufam.edu.br/handle/tede/3946.
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The source for this study was the practice of the Ticuna artisans women while making the pacará baskets. The ethnography presented here was produced by the Ticuna artisans women from two distinct regions in the state of Amazonas: one by the upper Solimões river, in three communities that make up the Santo Antonio Indigenous community and in the Barro Vermelho community, and, in Manaus, by some Ticuna artisans women who live in the capital. It is a record of the Ticuna women’s practice, made by monitoring the baskets making process, since the moments prior to the weaving activity (harvesting, drying, dyeing), until the connections that such activity establish in social life and in their cultural prescriptions. Along the way, I identified counting processes, forms of material selection, methods used to measure, among other features observed in the making of baskets and that are in the categories of understanding. It shows how much artisans' practice is representative and how much it highlights the place of women in their society, either because of their prestige in the way today's communities closest to the cities are organized, or due to their authority as having the knowledge of the Ticuna ritual practices. The drawings in the pacará baskets were identified and classified as a sign, and its meanings attributed by the Ticunas, considering the combination of the different manifestations that these representations appear in ritual practices and artifacts. Finally, we make an overview of the communities surveyed and the network that revolves around the practice of women, implying aspects of culture, social life and interaction with the surrounding society.
O fio condutor do presente estudo foi a prática das artesãs Ticuna na construção dos cestos pacará. A etnografia aqui apresentada foi produzida junto a mulheres artesãs Ticuna de duas regiões distintas do Amazonas: a do Alto Solimões, nas três comunidades que compõem a Terra Indígena Santo Antônio e na comunidade Barro Vermelho, e em Manaus, com algumas artesãs Ticuna residentes na capital. Trata-se de um registro da prática das mulheres, feito a partir do acompanhamento do processo de confecção dos cestos, desde os momentos que antecedem a atividade de tecer (colher, secar, tingir), até as conexões que, a partir dessa atividade, estabelecem-se na vida social e nas prescrições da cultura. Nesse percurso, identifiquei processos de contagem, formas de seleção do material, modos utilizados para medir, dentre outros aspectos observados na construção dos cestos e que são relativos às categorias de entendimento. Demonstra-se como a prática das artesãs é representativa na sua sociedade e destaca o lugar da mulher, seja por seu prestígio nas formas como hoje se organizam nas comunidades mais próximas das cidades, seja por sua autoridade como detentora de um conhecimento das práticas rituais dos Ticuna. Procedeu-se à identificação e classificação dos grafismos constituintes do cesto pacará, na sua condição de signo, verificando suas conexões com os significados atribuídos pelos Ticuna, considerando a combinação das diferentes manifestações em que essas representações aparecem, nas práticas rituais e nos artefatos. Por fim, tecemos um panorama das comunidades pesquisadas e da rede que se estende em torno da prática das mulheres, implicando aspectos da cultura, da vida social e do convívio com a sociedade envolvente.
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Espinosa, Óscar. "Los planes de vida y la política indígena en la Amazonía peruana." Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, 2014. http://repositorio.pucp.edu.pe/index/handle/123456789/79099.
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Este artículo busca discutir la dimensión política de los planes de vida indígena, tomando en consideración algunos casos de la región amazónica peruana. En concreto, se discuten tres casos específicos en que los planes de vida indígena han sido utilizados como un instrumento de autogobierno o de negociación política entre las sociedades indígenas y el Estado peruano: el del pueblo achuar, el de la Central Asháninka del Río Ene (CARE) y el de la Asociación Interétnica de Desarrollo de la Selva Peruana (AIDESEP).In this article the political dimension of the «planes de vida indígena» (indigenous life plans) are discussed in three cases from the Peruvian Amazon region. In these cases, the «planes de vida» have fulfilled a role in the process of indigenous self-government or in the negotiation of the indigenous agenda vis-à-vis the State. The three cases studied are those of the Achuar people, an Ashaninka local organization – the Central Asháninka del Río Ene (CARE) – and the case of AIDESEP, the national-level indigenous organization for the Amazon region in Peru.
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Sanchez, Silva Luisa Fernanda. ""De totumas y Estantillos". Procesos migratorios, dinámicas de pertenencia y de diferenciación entre la Gente de Centro (Amazonia colombiana)." Thesis, Paris 3, 2012. http://www.theses.fr/2012PA030179/document.
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Au cours des années 80, le gouvernement colombien a rendu le Predio Putumayo à ses habitants ancestraux, les Gens du Centre, donnant ainsi naissance à la réserve indienne la plus grande de la Colombie. Cet acte décisif marque la fin d‘une longue dispute entre les indiens, les entreprises extractives et les institutions de l‘Etat. Il a été alors interprété comme une véritable révolution dans les représentations traditionnelles de la citoyenneté. Toutefois, si l‘on observe avec attention ce processus de reconnaissance politique et territoriale, on s‘apercevra qu‘une autre réalité émerge simultanément: la migration d‘une centaine de femmes indiennes vers les villes du pays ; un chemin sans retour depuis leurs petites villages vers la métropole inconnue. Cette expérience pionnière constitue la base d‘un solide réseau migratoire qui s‘étend aujourd‘hui à la plus part de villes colombiennes. Pourquoi sont-elles parties de leur territoire alors qu‘elles profitaient –au moins formellement- d‘une autonomie politique et culturelle ? Leur décision migratoire a-t-elle signifié le rejet de la "différence généralisée" proclamée par le discours multiculturel ? Le projet migratoire de celles et ceux qui sont partis dans ce premier moment est-il différent de celui des hommes et des femmes qui partent aujourd‘hui ? Ce travail de recherche tente de répondre à ces questions en reconstruisant d‘abord les processus de mobilité des Gens du Centre à Leticia et Bogotá au long des 30 dernières années. Il analyse ensuite les différentes stratégies d‘insertion urbaine des migrants indiens dans le contexte du multiculturalisme comme mode de gestion privilégié entre cette population et les sociétés d‘origine et de réceptionDuring the years 80, Colombian government returns the Predio Putumayo to its early inhabitants, The People of the Center, giving form to the biggest indigenous reservation of the country. This crucial act was not only the end of a long dispute between the indigenous people, the extractive enterprises and the state. It was also interpreted as a revolution in the traditional citizenship representations. However, if we look carefully to this process of territorial and politic recognition we will notice a simultaneous reality: the migration of hundreds of women to the cities of the country. This was a non-return trip from the little towns of the rain-forest‘s rivers to the unknown national cities. The experience of these pioneers‘ women built the bases of a solid migration network that today spreads out to the main cities of Colombia. Why did they leave their territory now that she counted –at least formally- with a political and cultural autonomy? Was their migratory decision a renunciation to the ―generalized difference‖ proclaimed by the multicultural discourse? The migrations project of those who left their region in that first time is it similar from the one of those who leaves today? This dissertation tries to answer to these questions through a reconstruction of the migration processes of The People of the Center to Leticia and Bogotá during the last 30 years. Then, it analyses the different strategies of migrant‘s urban insertion in the context of multiculturalism as the privileged administration mode between the indigenous people and the societies of departure and destination
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(11185029), Ingrid C. Ramon Parra. "Menire Making Movies: Participatory Video Production Among Kayapo Women in the Brazilian Amazon." Thesis, 2021.
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- The growing field of Indigenous media has contributed greatly to theorizations around digital appropriation, self-representation and political advocacy, and the importance of media to Indigenous People’s movements. However, these theorizations and scholarly works tend to primarily focus on Indigenous men’s media practices and contexts. This dissertation presents findings from the Mẽnire Making Movies project, a participatory media project that explores Kayapó women’s digital worlds through a case study that merges ethnographic research and on-site media training in the village of A’Ukre in the Kayapó Indigenous Lands in northeastern Brazil. This project trained 4-6 Kayapó women in introductory audiovisual production and editing and is the first project to focus exclusively on Kayapó women’s engagements with digital technology. Through a decolonial and participatory methodology, this media project centers Kayapó social values of accountability, relationality, and conviviality, to analyze how Kayapó women’s media-making speaks to gendered and generational dimensions of personhood through an Amazonian social lens. Drawing from literature on feminist geography, Amazonian social theory, and Indigenous media in Latin America, this project presents findings that broaden the current literature on Kayapó media by introducing the conceptual framework of accompanied media. As an analytical and theoretical framework, accompanied media approaches Indigenous media as both a product and a social practice, centering the relational dimensions of production, consumption, and circulation. Scholars and media facilitators can apply the accompanied media framework to design inclusive media workshops with Indigenous communities that take into account barriers that can limit women’s participation like language, gender, social and behavioral norms, and other practical elements of participatory media work.
Books on the topic "Indigenous Amazonian Anthropology"
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Jean, Crocker, ed. The Canela: Kinship, ritual, and sex in an Amazonian tribe. 2nd ed. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth/Thomson Learning, 2004.
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Mythology, Spirituality, and History in an Amazonian Community (The Arakmbut of Amazonian Peru Series Volume 1). Berghahn Books, 2004.
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Crocker, Jean G., and William H. Crocker. The Canela: Kinship, Ritual and Sex in an Amazonian Tribe (Case Studies in Cultural Anthropology). 2nd ed. Wadsworth Publishing, 2003.
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1943-, Sponsel Leslie E., ed. Indigenous peoples and the future of Amazonia: An ecological anthropology of an endangered world. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1995.
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Sponsel, Leslie E. Indigenous Peoples and the Future of Amazonia: An Ecological Anthropology of an Endangered World (Arizona Studies in Human Ecology). University of Arizona Press, 1995.
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Settee, Priscilla. "Indigenous Peoples’ Amazonian Sustainable Development Project." In Indigenous Studies and Engaged Anthropology, 201–16. Routledge, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315588377-10.
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Behrens, Clifford A. "A Formal Justification for the Application of GIS to the Cultural Ecological Analysis of Land-Use Intensification and Deforestation in the Amazon." In Anthropology, Space, and Geographic Information Systems. Oxford University Press, 1996. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780195085754.003.0007.
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What is the process by which indigenous Amazonian people intensify their utilization of tropical forest resources, and what are the roles of population demography, settlement patterns, and resource degradation in this process? These are the central problems of this chapter. Over the last fifty years, ecologically oriented anthropologists have focused on these questions because of their significance for explaining the socioecological variability found among Amazonian Indians. A common theme in many attempts to account for socioecological variability in the Amazon is that large, sedentary populations necessitate increasing levels of social integration. Therefore, some explanations for this variability have sought factors that limit population density, such as the local availability of arable soils and protein-rich faunal foods. Simple single-factor frameworks have been criticized, yielding slightly more complex kinds of explanation, some based on evolutionary ecology and decision theory. Nevertheless, none of these approaches has successfully managed to relate population growth, village formation, resource degradation, and intensification of land use together in a single formalism that derives its first principles from a comparative analysis of the ethnographic literature. As a result, culture has not been assigned the central role it deserves in any theory purporting to characterize the process of land use intensification among indigenous Amazonians. This paper will review the ethnographic literature on the Amazon to (1) establish an empirical basis for the ingredients required to formulate cultural ecological theories of land-use intensification among indigenous Amazonians and (2) propose a developmental sequence based on increasing sedentism, intensification of land utilization, and growing market demand for production. Thus, this paper attempts to integrate seemingly disparate ideas from the past and present, each with some “ring of truth,” in the kind of mathematical framework advocated but never really achieved by Steward. The resulting paradigm converges on one very much resembling “land scape ecology,” but with greater emphasis on the role of culture and human decision making in a generative process. The need for detailed land-use data on a regional scale implicates the application of new technologies, such as remote sensing and geographical information systems, to test the proposed theories.
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Long, Kathryn T. "¡Fuera de Aquí! (Get Out of Here!)." In God in the Rainforest, 214–25. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190608989.003.0014.
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This chapter suggests that just as during the 1960s American evangelicals idealized the Waorani as examples of missionary success, a decade later critics of missions and especially of the Summer Institute of Linguistics looked to the Waorani as evidence of the way missionaries damaged tribal cultures. After 1975 the criticisms in Ecuador became more widespread, coming from, among others, the anthropology department of the Pontifical Catholic University of Ecuador and from ¡Fuera de Aquí! (Get Out of Here!), a film by the Bolivian director Jorge Sanjinés seen by millions of Ecuadorians. Although ¡Fuera de Aquí! accused missionaries of a secret sterilization campaign against indigenous women, in the Amazonian rainforest the Waorani maintained healthy birth rates, and SIL staff helped them cope with more pressing matters of health: appropriate use of medicines, sanitation, and the prevalence of poisonous snakebites.