Yanomami Social Change 2 Culture Comparisons  Picchi: Bakairí as a “demographic success story”  Is this “success” generalized among indigenous groups.

Slides:



Advertisements
Similar presentations
Napoleon A. Chagnon 1938-Present. Napoleon A. Chagnon Best known for his extensive ethnographic fieldwork among the Yanomamö Began his fieldwork in 1964.
Advertisements

Scramble for Africa Chapter 11 Section 1.
Topic 3: Ideas of Race in the late 19th and 20th Centuries
Africa and the Slave Trade
The Yanomamo (Yah-no-mah-muh) also called Yanomami, and Yanomama Tribe in Amazonia.
The Yanomami Tribe The last neolithic culture in the Amazon rainforest Uncontacted Amazon Tribe First ever aerial footage.avi.
Amazonia Villages/Chiefdoms Wilson’s Chapter 6 The Yanomamö.
Yanomami Indians. 'Yanomami' means 'Human Being'  The Yanomami are an indigenous tribe (also called Yanamamo, Yanomam, and Sanuma) made up of four subdivisions.
The Case of Darkness in El Dorado …as the Yanomami Group Three: Brian Staub Colin Ricketts Ryan Mercier Andrew Kay Courtney Calloway Dan Colaiezzi.
10.2 World Geography Brazil
What is a Vaccine? What Is A Vaccine? A vaccine is a substance that teaches the body’s immune system to recognize and protect against a disease caused.
Questions Eating Christmas in the Kalahari
The Bakairí Indians of Brazil Politics, Ecology, and Change.
California Native American History
SS6G4 The student will describe the cultural characteristics of people who live in Latin America and the Caribbean.
By Dylan Peterson Gender and culture Roles of the Yanomamo: a tribe of the Amazon.
Atlantic South America Brazil. History  Brazil is the largest country in South America. Its population of 188 million people is more than all of the.
What are we going to do today? Ethical Issues in Anthropological Research A few examples of historical blunders in ethical issues AAA Statement of Ethics.
10 facts on gender and tobacco World Health Organization.
Prisoners as Colonists in Australia
Women and Native Americans Fight for Change The Main Idea In the 1960s women and Native Americans struggled to achieve social justice. Reading Focus What.
Yanomamo Culture. A group of 20,000 indigenous people who live in some villages along the Amazon River in Venezuela and Brazil.
Native American life changed dramatically as a result of westward expansion Impact on Native Americans: 1.Forced to move to reservations 2.Decreased population.
Section 3: European Claims in Sub-Saharan Africa
South American Indigenous Tribes By: Katie Schleper.
Latin America Under European Control. From the 10th to the 19th centuries, European countries colonized most of the non-white world. Thus began the age.
Trade Routes Europeans first became interested in Africa for trade route purposes. They were looking for ways to avoid the taxes of the Arab and Ottoman.
Some Basic Information Area: The Yanomomi territory covers an area of approximately 74,000 miles, located on both sides of the border between Brazil and.
Spanish Explorations Describe aims, obstacles, and accomplishments of Spanish explorers. Trace the routes of Spanish explorers and identify their claims.
European Conquests By the late 1400s Spanish explorers arrived in the Americas.
How We Came To Be. 1. What event led to an increased demand in Europe for goods produced in Asia? 2. Rumors of what precious metal in North America played.
Working with American Indian/Alaska Native Students.
APARTHEID Legalized racism or segregation in South Africa.
AHMED OTHMAN 8E Yanomami. Concept Global Interactions: Societies, Cultures, and the Global World are all Connected. Who are the people? Where are they?
Brazil A short history. Pre - Colonial Brazil developed culturally over many centuries Two theories of how the first people arrived in Brazil: –Migrated.
What Factors Encouraged European Exploration? Why did they come to Latin America?
The Amazon Rainforest. Background Information The Amazon Rainforest or the Amazon jungle, is a moist broadleaf forest that covers most of South America.
By: Elizabeth, Samie, Hannah and Madyson.  Indigenous people have been forced off the land for many reasons ◦ Cattle ranchers ◦ Logging companies ◦ Mining.
This is a photograph of young Kayapo children, part of an indigenous tribe in the Amazon Basin. If development continues at the rate in which it is progressing,
Amazonian Warfare Laura Zanotti May 1, Amazon as a warscape Is there any connection between current conservation practices and past histories.
Cultures of Latin America
 Spanish Explorer  With over 600 men, left Cuba in 1539, landed in Florida and marched north.  1540 he entered Georgia (close to Albany)  In search.
European Exploration God, Gold and Glory!. Arrival of Europeans  Europeans traveled to the Americas in the late 15th century.  Conditions were hard.
Chapter 11 Modern World History By: Martina Espinoza.
Brazil: History Chapter 8 Section 2. How did Brazil’s early peoples live? How did the Portuguese colony in Brazil develop? How did Brazil gain independence.
HERNANDO DE SOTO SPANISH EXPLORATIONS. SS8H1 The student will evaluate the development of Native American cultures and the impact of European exploration.
THE SCRAMBLE FOR AFRICA CHAPTER 11 SECTION1. AFRICA BEFORE EUROPEAN DOMINATION A.Imperialism: the seizure of a country or territory by a stronger country.
European Imperialism in Africa Devastation of Racism 1.
THE SCRAMBLE FOR AFRICA Domination by Europe. VOCABULARY Imperialism: the seizing of a country or territory by a stronger country, they may control the.
The Kayapo & REsistance l. 2 Kayapó: History of Encroachment BakairíYanomami Kayapó.
IMPACT OF THE AGE OF EXPLORATION.  European set out to discover riches and wealth of all kinds  Once the new world was discovered they began to search.
The Yanomamo One of the last ‘true’ culturally isolated people One of the last ‘true’ culturally isolated people Live in southern Venezuela & northwest.
Ch The Scramble for Africa
Unit 2: Age of Colonization
AP Ch. 20 Africa & the Africans in the Age of the Atlantic Slave Trade.
Review……….. Do Now What is the time period for the slave trade? Approximately how many africans were affected? When did the slave trade end? What is an.
Indian Wars. Population changes, growth of cities, and new inventions produced interaction and often conflict between different cultural groups.
Chapter 27 The Age of Imperialism.
Thurs, October 15 Who’s who?? Write down your answers somewhere: First to apply anthropology to modern societies Founder of Functionalism Father of American.
The Age of Exploration Chapter 2.
Imperialism In Africa Cy - Ranch.
French and Indian War.
9.2/9.3 Brazil, Argentina, Paraguay & Uruguay
Scramble for Africa Chapter 11 Section 1.
Europeans Establish Colonies
About the human rights issues relating to indigenous populations.
South Africa “One of the most tormented yet most inspiring stories to be found anywhere.” –Lonely Planet.
Imperialism.
Exploration and the Colonial Era
Presentation transcript:

Yanomami Social Change

2 Culture Comparisons  Picchi: Bakairí as a “demographic success story”  Is this “success” generalized among indigenous groups across the Amazon?  Yanomami & Kayapó examples

3  10,000 Yanomami live in scattered villages

4 Yanomami Shabono

5 Slash & Burn Horticulture

6 1973: Transamazon Highway  Onchoceriasis (African River Blindness)  Carried by black flies  Causes fibrous tumors on skin & eyes Colonization Project  “Land without people for people without land”

7 1975: Uranium Discovered Gold Mining, mercury poisoning  1982 Polornoroeste Development Project (World Bank)  1000s of Poor Landless People Arrive  Measles, Flue, VD, Malaria  1988 – ¼ Yanomami had died FUNAI – Bureau of Indian Affairs

8 AAA Lobbied for a Yanomami Park  1991 – Brazilian Government established a Yanomami Reserve  Yet their lands continue to be invaded

9 “PROGRESS” “AN AREA AS RICH AS THIS—WITH GOLD AND URANIUM, CAN NOT AFFORD THE LUXURY OF CONSERVING HALF A DOZEN INDIAN TRIBES WHO ARE HOLDING BACK THE DEVELOPMENT OF BRAZIL”  Policy of Integration & Assimilation  Yanomami as “primitives” & an obstacle to “progress”

10 Napoleon Chagnon & “The Fierce People” ,000 Copies 35 Years of Fieldwork

11 Chagnon’s Sociobiology   Wife-beatings, club fights, axe fights, raids, perpetual warfare   Men who kill more enemies have more wives, more children

12 Influence on government policy  1989 Deprived the Yanomami of land  Venezuela created 19 islands, “To keep them from killing each other”  1999 “Venezuela bans U.S. Anthropologist: Government accuses him of exaggerating violence in Stone Age Native villages”

13 January 1999

14 Darkness in El Dorado  2000 Terry Turner, Leslie Sponsel “The impending scandal is ‘unparalleled in the history of anthropology’”

15 Tierney’s Claims:  Chagnon’s study organized by human geneticist James Neel  Neel’s eugenics theory: dominant genes for “leadership” would have a selective advantage; males would gain more access to females & reproduce their own superior genes more frequently  Chagnon’s research provided support for Neel’s theory

16 The Measles Epidemic:  Tierney: The researchers contributed to the deaths of Yanomami by administering Edmonson B measles vaccine to previously unexposed populations  This was part of an experiment to test Neel’s theory

17 AAA 2000 Annual Meeting  Reactions of panel, audience  Edmonson B Revisited  Neel obtained 2000 doses of vaccine as a humane act to prevent measles  Dr. Samuel Katz: Edmonson B cannot cause measles  The epidemic began before the researchers arrived, brought by missionaries’ 2 year old child --17 Yanomami died

18 Tierney’s Book:  AAA Task force found the book “full of false & misleading information, half- truths, deception, and omission  Unethical journalism

AAA El Dorado Task Force:  The American Anthropological Association repudiates the accusations or insinuations of starting or abetting a lethal measles epidemic by vaccination among the Yanomami made against the late James Neel and Napoleon Chagnon, and recognizes the harmfulness of false accusations regarding vaccine safety.  The American Anthropological Association repudiates the accusations or insinuations of starting or abetting a lethal measles epidemic by vaccination among the Yanomami made against the late James Neel and Napoleon Chagnon, and recognizes the harmfulness of false accusations regarding vaccine safety.

20 Anthropology on Trial (again)  Chagnon has been targeted for his theoretical views  Yet clearly engaged in unethical behavior  Medical testing without informed consent  Name taboos in collecting genealogies  He made his career on the Yanomami, yet remained insensitive

21 “Darkness in El Dorado was produced by 100s of Years of Colonialism and Abuse”  “The fierceness of the Yanomamo is nothing compared to the terrible & powerful violence being done to them by the outside world”