Beyond this, we never let go of our culture. For example, we never give up
our traditional clothing. Our people are advancing, but they don’t know
how to do everything. We don’t know how to do everything at the beginning
of something new, but we’re advancing. There are some things about our
culture that I can’t speak about, because they are secrets. This goes
for other people too. Truthfully, for us as Parintintin, from the time of contact
to today, our vision has changed. Today, our people are much more like Brazilians.
To us, our people have failed in some parts of our culture. There are things
that are changing our own culture as indigenous people. We speak two languages.
In the case of my village, we speak our own language and Portuguese. But we
never give up our culture. I’m not an enemy of Brazil, I’m an indigenous
man, but the question of land invasions, the question of mining, the question
of illegal logging, hunting, fishing, all of this comes back to our people;
it causes a problem, a very serious problem.
Latin American anthropology
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Created:on 2008-06-26 | Updated:on 2008-08-28
Collection of resources related to Latin American anthropology
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Zápara Leaders and Identity Construction in Ecuador: The Complexities of Indigenous Self-Representation
IN THIS ARTICLE, I EXPLORE THE PRACTICES of self-representation used by indigenous leaders or dirigentes (as they are often referred to in Spanish) from the Zápara Nationality of Ecuador, one of the smallest indigenous groups in the Ecuadorian Amazon. These dirigentes have used indigenous languages, specifically Zápara and Kichwa, to symbolize their authenticity when interacting with non-Zápara outsiders. Zápara dirigentes' emphasis on Zápara and Kichwa as indicators of their communities' legitimacy has been important for creating political space for the Zápara in Ecuador. However, by equating indigenous languages with authenticity, Zápara dirigentes have also partially obscured and invalidated Zápara histories and practices. For example, they have downplayed the use of Spanish in their communities when representing them to outsiders and have highlighted rival indigenous leaders' lack of knowledge of the Zápara language to discredit them. By examining the complexities of these dirigentes' representational practices, I contribute to a more complex understanding of how indigenous leaders in Latin America have articulated new expressions of indigenous authority and power in their processes of self-representation.
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The Price of Profits by Zachary Hurwitz
The Initiative for the Regional Integration of Infrastructure in South America is the latest and largest in a series of bank-financed schemes to bring "development" to the Amazon Basin—and more trouble to the region's indigenous communities.
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Collective Action in Action: Prosocial Behavior in and out of the Laboratory
Experiments have become a popular method to study altruism and cooperation in laboratory and, more recently, in field settings. However, few studies have examined whether behavior in experiments tells us anything about behavior in the “real world.” To investigate the external validity of several common experimental economics games, we compare game behavior with prosocial behavior among Tsimane forager-horticulturalists of lowland Bolivia. We find that food-sharing patterns, social visitation, beer production and consumption, labor participation, and contributions to a feast are not robustly correlated with levels of giving in the economics games. Payoff structure and socioecological context may be more important in predicting prosocial behavior in a wide variety of domains than stable personality traits. We argue that future experimental methods should be tailored to specific research questions, show reduced anonymity, and incorporate repeat measures under a variety of conditions to inform and redirect ethnographic study and build scientific theory.
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