Indigenous myths and nation building in Latin America

Gutiérrez, Natividad

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“…Myths are a 'body of explanation' on human existence, the origin of a group and the dependency on the natural world, which are all essential to understanding cultural identity [72,75]. Myths are often 'solving' and interpreting life paradoxes experienced by a group, which justifies traditional beliefs and creates guiding rules for a society [53,72].…”

Section: Ethnoprimatologymentioning

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Ethnoprimatology of the Shipibo of the upper Ucayali River, Perú

Anca,

Shanee,

Svensson

2023

J Ethnobiology Ethnomedicine

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In the Anthropocene, primate conservation can only take place when considering human culture, perspectives, and needs. Such approaches are increasingly important under the growing impact of anthropogenic activities and increasing number of threatened primates. The Amazon rainforest, rich in cultural and biological diversity, where indigenous people play a crucial role in primate conservation, provides ample opportunity to study human–primate interactions and the sociocultural context in which they occur. Human activities threaten the Amazon’s fragile ecosystems and its primates, which play a key role in its maintenance and regeneration. This study focuses on one of the largest indigenous groups in the Peruvian Amazon: the Shipibo. Interviews and participant observation were used to investigate local perceptions of animal presence and depletion, food preferences, and how primates are incorporated into daily life and culture. Since time immemorial and still today, primates remain important in Shipibo culture, mythology, and subsistence. Local Shipibo participants consistently identified the presence of 13 species of primate. Primates were among the preferred species for consumption, pet keeping, and held a fundamental role in mythology, traditional knowledge, and storytelling. Large-bodied primates were often mentioned as being locally extinct, with reports and observations suggesting increasing consumption of smaller-bodied primates. Commonly perceived reasons for primate depletion include noise disturbance, hunting, and population growth, often in parallel. This study sheds light on the cultural context of an area rich in biodiversity, where primates, essential for ecological balance and integral to Shipibo lives and identity, are being depleted. We highlight the need for an inclusive ethnoprimatological approach to conserving primates and preserving indigenous heritage while improving local livelihoods.

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Section: Ethnoprimatologymentioning

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Ethnoprimatology of the Shipibo of the upper Ucayali River, Perú

Anca,

Shanee,

Svensson

2023

J Ethnobiology Ethnomedicine

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“…Nation‐building in Bolivia was not only forged by the wealthy white men in power. As in other Latin American countries, ethnicity was resilient, showing “its unpredictable malleability and capacity of response and organization throughout significant political mobilizations.” It was never “passive or indifferent to mainstream affairs” (Gutiérrez, 2018, p. 275). While this process was contested in Ecuador by racialised identities working through liberalism (Foote, 2006), in Bolivia autonomous indigenous mobilisations (Gotkowitz, 2007; Larson, 2004) anticipated and then converged with anarchism.…”

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“A Fatherland worth living in”: Anarchism, citizenship and nation in Bolivia, 1900–1941

Margarucci

2022

Nations and Nationalism

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This paper analyses the particular role played by anarchism in early 20th century discussions concerning the Bolivian nation and citizenship. Based on a diverse corpus of documents and extended specialised literature, I will argue that between the 1920s and 1940s the local anarchist movement took part in these debates by rejecting the Creole oligarchy's definition of the nation and proposing one of its own. Ideologically, this intervention meant imagining a different, more inclusive national community made up of racialised and gendered identities. Practically, it implied fighting against internal colonialism, struggling for equal citizenship, and defending the ethnic and gender identity and human dignity of mestizos, cholas, and indigenous people. By reconstructing these debates and some anarchist “ethno‐classist” struggles of the period, I approach the anticolonial orientation of Bolivian anarchism, and more generally, examine a historical experience in which subaltern subjectivities intervened in nation‐building away from a statist, Western and patriarchal path.

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Building the state and conceiving the nation: the origins of separatist insurgency in the Mizo Hills, 1945-61

Holt

2022

Contemporary South Asia

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Indigenous myths and nation building in Latin America

Cited by 6 publications

References 9 publications

Ethnoprimatology of the Shipibo of the upper Ucayali River, Perú

Ethnoprimatology of the Shipibo of the upper Ucayali River, Perú

“A Fatherland worth living in”: Anarchism, citizenship and nation in Bolivia, 1900–1941

Building the state and conceiving the nation: the origins of separatist insurgency in the Mizo Hills, 1945-61

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