ISBN:
9781461410645
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (530 p)
Parallel Title:
Print version The Ethics of Anthropology and Amerindian Research
DDC:
174/.9301
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
The decision to publish scholarly findings bearing on the question of Amerindian environmental degradation, warfare, and/or violence is one that weighs heavily on anthropologists. This burden stems from the fact that documentation of this may render descendant communities vulnerable to a host of predatory agendas and hostile modern forces. Consequently, some anthropologists and community advocates alike argue that such culturally and socially sensitive, and thereby, politically volatile information regarding Amerindian-induced environmental degradation and warfare should not be reported. This
Description / Table of Contents:
The Ethics of Anthropology and Amerindian Research; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Contents; Contributors; Chapter 1: Introduction; Ecological Amerindians?; Amerindian Pacifists?; False Dichotomy; Attempts to Suppress Data on Environmental Degradation Caused by Indigenous Peoples; Attempts to Suppress Data on Indigenous Warfare and Violence; Culture of Accusation; "Pro-Indian" Versus "Anti-Indian" Anthropologists?; Dangers of Reporting Cases of Environmental Degradation Caused by Native Peoples; G/ui and G//ana San and the Bakgalagadi Peoples of the Kalahari
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Dangers of Reporting Cases of Indigenous Warfare and ViolenceReality Check; Chapter Summaries; References; Chapter 2: Ethical and Political Ramifications of the Reporting/Non-Reporting of Native American Ritualized Violence; Discoveries; Firehouse Site (12D563); 12Hr6; Bluegrass Site (12W162); Meyer Site (12Sp1082); 12Fl73; Archaeological Perspective; Opposing View; "Mystical" Indian; "Archaeological" Indian; Resolution?; References; Chapter 3: Pre-Columbian Warfare and Indecorous Images in Southeastern North America; Viewing the Other Via the Camera; Viewing Victims of Violence
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Photography and the Study of Pre-Columbian WarfareThe Epidemiological Transition as Structural Violence; Addressing the Ethics of Photos and Violence; References; Chapter 4: The Portrayal of Native American Violence and Warfare: Who Speaks for the Past?*; Violence and Entertainment; Modern Interpretations of Native Violence and Combat; Native Views of Combat and Violence; Discussion; Summary; References; Chapter 5: Catawba Indians' Adaptive Response to Colonialism; Historical Background; Tuscarora War; Yamasee War; Ethics; Conclusions; References
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Chapter 6: Maya Hunting Sustainability: Perspectives from Past and PresentIntroduction; Research Background; Highland Ethnozoology; A Comparison of Ancient and Modern Hunting Sustainability; The Comparative Samples; The Atitlan Cache Assemblages; The Archaeological Assemblages; Methods of the Comparison; Results; Taxonomic Comparisons; Foraging Efficiency and Prey Vulnerability in the Cache Deposits; Comparing Caches to Archaeological Assemblages; Discussion; References; Chapter 7: Sympathetic Ethnocentrism, Repression, and Auto-repression of Q'eqchi ' Maya Blood Sacrifice
Description / Table of Contents:
Q'eqchi' Blood Sacrifice: Continuity, Change, Repression, and ResistanceModern Q'eqchi' Settlement and Variability in Religion and Ritual in the Alta Verapaz/Southern Peten Region; Contemporary Q'eqchi' Maya/Catholic Rituals in the Cancuen Region; Blood Sacrifice in Q'eqchi,' Wa'atesink , and Mayehak Rituals; Western Sensibilities Versus Indigenous Perceptions of Corporality; The Retreat of the Blood; Maya Sacrifice in the Contemporary "Panopticon"; Ethics and Outcomes; References; Chapter 8: Relativism, Revisionism, Aboriginalism, and Emic/Etic Truth: The Case Study of Apocalypto
Description / Table of Contents:
Introduction
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Description based upon print version of record
