Pulp Fictions of Indigenism.

Ramos, Alcida Rita

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“…Although now codified in international law and development discourse (e.g., the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, 2007), the moniker “Indigenous” is a highly politicized category, replete with historical complexities and contestations in Amazonia and beyond (Carneiro da Cunha, 2009; Kenrick & Lewis, 2004; Ramos, 2003). It would be difficult to attempt a general comparison of “Indigenous knowledge systems” with Western science (see Bang et al.’s, 2018, discussion of Kimmerer, 2002, on TEK and Indigenous science), given that the scope of such a comparison would include vastly distinctive types of knowledge, from fully systematized bodies of professional practice such as Ayurveda or traditional Chinese medicine, codified in written texts for thousands of years, to the threatened and virtually unknown ethnobiological classification systems of isolated Indigenous peoples of the Amazon.…”

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Sensory Ecology, Bioeconomy, and the Age of COVID: A Parallax View of Indigenous and Scientific Knowledge

Shepard

Daly

2023

Topics in Cognitive Science

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Drawing on original ethnobotanical and anthropological research among Indigenous peoples across the Amazon, we examine synergies and dissonances between Indigenous and Western scientific knowledge about the environment, resource use, and sustainability. By focusing on the sensory dimension of Indigenous engagements with the environment—an approach we have described as “sensory ecology” and explored through the method of “phytoethnography”—we promote a symmetrical dialogue between Indigenous and scientific understandings around such phenomena as animal–plant mutualisms, phytochemical toxicity, sustainable forest management in “multinatural” landscapes, and the emergence of new diseases like the novel coronavirus SARS‐CoV‐2 (COVID‐19). Drawing examples from our own and other published works, we explore the possibilities and limitations of a “parallax view” attempting to hold Indigenous and scientific knowledge in focus simultaneously. As the concept of “bioeconomy” emerges as a key alternative for sustainable development of the Amazon, we encourage a critical and urgent engagement between dominant Western conceptions and Indigenous Amazonian knowledge, practices, and cultural values. Cognitive science, which has long contributed to studies of Indigenous categorization and conceptualization of the natural world, continues to play an important role in building bridges of mutual communication and respect between Indigenous and scientific approaches to sustainability and biodiversity conservation.

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Sensory Ecology, Bioeconomy, and the Age of COVID: A Parallax View of Indigenous and Scientific Knowledge

Shepard

Daly

2023

Topics in Cognitive Science

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“…Las disciplinas intelectuales son organizadas hoy con conceptos y términos que aparecen en respuesta a una experiencia particular en una parte del mundo particular, viajan a otras partes como si fueran ellas mismas y adquieren vida de suyo propia. Esto no solo alimenta la confusión intelectual, pero como en el presente caso, también proveen de munición ideológica a aquellos quienes podrían reordenar el mundo de acuerdo a los valores de sangre y suelo" (Béteille, 1998: 190-191) 13 Varios autores, han precisado el término de "esencialismo estratégico" para referirse a la utilización que los grupos indígenas hacen de sus rasgos culturales, tales como Hale (2006), Ramos (2000), Warren (1998) global. En este campo también las pueden ser muy amplias y variadas, porque no todos los pueblos indígenas mantienen una propiedad común, algunas comunidades reconocen propiedades privadas, entonces puede no referirse necesariamente a la defensa de la propiedad colectiva sino al patrimonio de grupos particulares o incluso a actores individuales.…”

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El laberinto de la pluralidad. A 50 años de políticas de reconocimiento y exclusión dirigidas hacia los pueblos indígenas en México

Vázquez

2019

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La relación del Estado con los pueblos indígenas en México es laberíntica, ya que nos muestra a lo largo de los años una gran variedad de discursos y acciones que han ido desde el desconocimiento y la asimilación hasta la discusión relacionada con formas de atención legislativa para la comprensión de su pluralidad. En el presente texto se revisan de manera impresionista las principales transformaciones políticas, institucionales y legislativas de los últimos 50 años relacionadas con el reconocimiento y la exclusión hacia los pueblos indígenas en nuestro país.

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“…Across Amazonia, development in Indigenous communities presents a difficult situation. Schmink and Wood (1992: 290) found Amazonian populations caught in a 'progress cycle', where community resistance was distained by national majorities since Indigenous peoples were, and to significant degree still are, targeted as obstacles to be removed from the path of 'development' and the building of a modern nation (Blaser et al 2004;Forte 2006;Ramos 2003). However, Indigenous residents were wary of foreign expectations and domination patterns (Bulkan and Bulkan 2006;Collomb 2006;Forte 2006: 12;MacKay 2006), and Schmink and Wood cited one resident as saying:…”

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Impacts of the Cattle Industry and Road Development in the Rupununi, Guyana

MacDonald¹

2014

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In the late 1800s, cattle began arriving to the Rupununi as an extension of Brazilian ranching activities serving the rubber-boom market of Manaus. The initial impacts of this ranching economy upon the Indigenous peoples of the Rupununi greatly changed their traditional way of life, and in particular affected their access to and control of territory. This was exacerbated in 1920, when the 'cattle trail' was opened to bring beef to the Guyanese market, thereby connecting the region to the country's capital and exposing the Rupununi to coastal peoples, politics, and pressures. Recently, the Brazilian government has been advocating strongly for the development of a continuous surface road linking Manaus through the Rupununi to Georgetown, thereby connecting the Brazilian interior with the Caribbean export economy, with further links to global trade. This road threatens to increase pressures on Indigenous territory within Guyana, resulting in the further annexation of traditional ancestral lands and losses of subsistence and livelihood practices. Based on recent fieldwork, this paper explores the social and environmental impacts of this road upon the peoples of the Rupununi, as well as local responses, and suggests that Brazil may have an increasing presence in the Rupununi, enabled through geopolitical road development.

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Pulp Fictions of Indigenism.

Cited by 6 publications

References 226 publications

Sensory Ecology, Bioeconomy, and the Age of COVID: A Parallax View of Indigenous and Scientific Knowledge

Sensory Ecology, Bioeconomy, and the Age of COVID: A Parallax View of Indigenous and Scientific Knowledge

El laberinto de la pluralidad. A 50 años de políticas de reconocimiento y exclusión dirigidas hacia los pueblos indígenas en México

Impacts of the Cattle Industry and Road Development in the Rupununi, Guyana

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