...The film that I watched and chose to write about is Xapiri. This film was made by Gisela Motta and Leandro Lima in 2012. The documentary takes place in Brazil and it consists of many different digital images, art, emotive photography, and much more to make this piece so fantastic. The movie was made to try and explain the Yanomami ideas and their connection to Shamans and the idea of Xapiri. The indigenous Yanomami people settled in the Amazonian rainforest mainly in Brazil and Argentina. Their culture has been known to believe in Shamanism which is the idea that a practitioner will be capable of going into other states of mind and perceive the world with indescribable transcendental energy found everywhere and in everything. The Yanomami people believed there was a Shaman that would enter into a trance state during a ceremony, which gave them the ability to feel the energy and spirits that are...
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...v ‘My Mom’s a Naked Jungle Woman:’ David Good on Finding His Mother Added by Lydia Bradbury on May 27, 2014. Saved under Lydia Webb, U.S., Venezuela Tags: good [pic]Divorced parents are a common enough occurrence in the United States that when a child says, “My parents are divorced,” it hardly raises an eyebrow. But for David Good, it was a painful reality he sought to avoid mentioning, mostly because he would have to explain where his mother was, which meant telling people that she lived in a tribe in Venezuela that was stuck in the Stone Age. Good’s mother, Yarima, is a member of the Yanomami tribe, a tribe that still maintains the vast majority of its ancient traditions, including rituals, feasts, games and living in the “shabano,” a large, circular communal house. After marrying Kenneth Good, an anthropologist studying the tribe, she lived with him in the U.S., but found the isolation from her family too hard to bear. She returned to the Amazon Rainforest in Venezuela, leaving David and his siblings with their father in America. After years of separation, David Good finally went to Venezuela to find his mother, and to face up to a fact he had avoided for so many years: “My mom’s a naked jungle woman.” At its heart, this story is one about love and family, which can sometimes be a truly multicultural experience. David Good is a true-blue American son. As a child, he played Little League baseball and had a paper route. For a boy raised in Pennsylvania...
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...The Yanomamo People The Yanomami people live in the Amazon rainforest which is located in Brazil and Venezuela, South America. They live in small kin-based communities of 40 – 350 people. Their survival is mainly based on horticultural and 80 -90% of their diet is grown in a garden. The women and children are responsible for gardening and producing small animals such as fish, frogs, and caterpillars. The men are responsible for hunting large animals. Each day, they spend about three hours per day working and the rest of their time is spent socializing with one another. The Yanomami women are expected to have many children and the children are expected to help with the chores. The young Yanomami girls are promised to men at very young ages. Marriages are usually arranged by the older men of the tribe, such as the girl’s father, brother, or uncle. Once a girl has her first menstrual period, she is no longer considered a child. She is now ready to be married but does not have a say in who she is to marry. At this time, the young girl goes to live with her spouse, which is usually her cross-cross, since most Yanomamo prefer to marry within their tribe to avoid any conflict between different tribes. “Cross-cousins marriage is marriages between the girl and the son of a maternal uncle or paternal aunt, are the most common form of marriage.” Marriage in this cultural is used to strengthen relationships between kinship and provides some...
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...Babysitter in Action With the breakthrough of the 21st century, America and its sociocultural, archeological, and biological research has excelled dramatically in the anthropology community. With new resources and technological advancements, studies have become more efficient and accurate than ever before. Despite information being uncovered regarding past and present societies, not all people reaped the benefits from the research done by anthropologists. As foretold in a few cases, the subjects that anthropologists did their studies on were abused or violated their traditions, practices, or beliefs of their culture. With a field that has lost ethical credibility, the government should play a larger role in anthropology by having a representative of the institutional review board (IRB) be responsibility for one or a set of cases studied by anthropologists. By eliminating loopholes found within the anthropology field, scientists will be able to make progress towards high ethical standards. A great example that encompasses control over a study was the IRB overreach featuring researcher and professor of education and human development at Brown, Jin Li. While it can be argued that the dropping of Li’s project was excessive due to inaccurate funding may seem valid, the IRB made the correct decision to punish Li. If Li were to carry out her study with inaccurate financial aid and the subjects were to find this out, lawsuits would arise against Li and the IRB because they...
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... Spain took away most of the mineral richness of Venezuela, installing kingdoms and creating small cities around the mainland. However, not all that Spaniards left in the Latin American countries were poverty, inequality and corruption. The Iberic Empire brought a whole knowledge in economy, religion, education, culture and industrialization. In this essay I would like to explain the economics systems in Spain as well as Venezuela and their neighbors of Latin America. How was Venezuela’s society build? Which are the differences between Spain and Venezuela in the economy field? Before the colonization, different types of tribes like Caribes, Yanomamis, Wayuus, Caracas, etc populated Venezuela. They had a rudimentary economy based on trades: each family was in charged of the collecting of a different type of plants, fruits or animals. Each item had a value in references with the rest of them, for example a watermelon had the same value as ten limes. Primitivism was all over the place, starting on the language passing through alimentation and finishing on the medical attention. With the arrival of the Spaniards, all this economic system went away as well as the culture,...
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...International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights by Australia 31 December 2008 By Keely Boom LLB B Com GDLP PhD Candidate, University of Wollongong Legal Officer, Australian Climate Justice Program CONTENTS Contents I. Summary of Complaint 3 II. Complainant 3 III. Defendant 3 IV. Basis of Complaint 4 V. Jurisdiction 4 VI. Exhaustion of all available domestic remedies 7 VII. Facts submitted by the Government of Algoria 8 VIII. Alleged Violations of the ICCPR by Australia 12 A. The Right of Self-Determination 13 B. The Right to Life 14 C. The Right to Liberty of Movement and Freedom to Choose One’s Residence 15 D. Freedom from Arbitrary or Unlawful Interference with Privacy and Family 16 E. The Right to Culture 17 IX. Causation 17 X. Remedies sought 20 Explanatory Note 22 Summary of Complaint 1. The State of Algoria complains that Australia is failing to fulfil its existing obligations under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights[1] (“ICCPR”) due to its historical and continuing contribution to anthropogenic climate change and its associated impacts upon the human rights and fundamental freedoms recognised in ICCPR as held by the citizens of the State of Algoria. 2. The State of Algoria makes this Complaint in accordance with interstate provisions provided through Article 41 of the ICCPR. 3. The relevant human rights and fundamental freedoms alleged to have been violated are: a. The right...
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...Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Department of Anthropology at OpenSIUC. It has been accepted for inclusion in Publications by an authorized administrator of OpenSIUC. For more information, please contact jnabe@lib.siu.edu. C u r r e n t A n t h r o p o l o g y Volume 45, Number 3, June 2004 2004 by The Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research. All rights reserved 0011-3204/2004/4503-0004$3.00 An Integrated Analysis of PreHispanic Mortuary Practices A Middle Sican Case Study1 ´ by Izumi Shimada, Ken-ichi Shinoda, Julie Farnum, Robert Corruccini, and Hirokatsu Watanabe Recent debate has raised serious questions about the viability of the social and ideological reconstruction of prehistoric culture on the basis of mortuary analysis. In recent years bioarchaeology has gained considerable prominence, underscoring the fact that death, burials, and associated...
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