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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"Amerindians"”.
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Abyssal Ideology and the Amerindians of Guyana: An Eco-Crimes Analysis of Power, Discourse and Cognitive Injustice
… the indigenous peoples of Guyana, the Amerindians. Massaging the parameters of green criminology and the eco-crimes framework, I synthesize Norman Faircloughs methodology known as critical discourse analysis (CDA) and Boaventura de Sousa Santos theoretical framework of Abyssal Thinking …
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A production of alterity: The Wayãpi of the Upper Oyapock and isolated groups
This study was carried out amongst the Wayãpi Amerindians of French Guiana, who have been made sedentary by governmental ‘francisation’ policies since the 1970s. Based on geographic location, ethnohistorical literature and Ameridian discourse, it proposes the definition of three “zones” near the …
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Face to Face: English Uses and Understanding of the Beard in Early Virginian Contacts
… have traced to European contact with beardless Amerindians. Within Europe, the beard came to represent more than otherness. A thick beard conveyed images of health, particularly sexual health; the beard came to represent virility and the beard helped to separate men from women and boys. In this …
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American archaeology and the conceptualization of preservation : Edgar Lee Hewett and the crafting of the 1906 Antiquities Act
… the shadow of progress and it was widely thought Amerindians were destined to fade away. Hewett, in crafting the Antiquities Act, facilitated this historical interpretation through the regulation of access to "prehistoric" ruins and the determination of the qualities worthy of preservation, and …
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For Logs, For Traditional Purposes and For Food: Identification of Multiple-Use Plant Species of Northern Amazonia and an Assessment of Factors Associated with Their Distribution
… and drew on the traditional knowledge of Amerindians to define multiple-use plants, describe their multiplicity of uses, describe vegetation types and assess multiple-use species distribution relative to land tenure classes and herbivores. I found four classes of multiple-use plants: …
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Edward Goodall’s ‘Sketches in British Guiana’: art, anthropography and colonialism in 19th century Amazonia
… demonstrate knowledge of and control over Amerindians through their representation, which paralleled the way the Guayana landscape was brought into British guardianship, all under the aegis of Christian humanitarianism, scientific advance and national-imperial prestige.
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"A More Perfect Indian Wisdom": Transcultural Exchange in the Writings of Henry D. Thoreau
… to create a multifarious representation of Amerindians that is truer to life than popular representations--both positive and negative--that orientalized Indians for their non-Western attributes. In this process, Thoreau's Indian Books show not only an evolution of Thoreau as author and …