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Multimedia website on American Indians lives in the 1830s

Published on August 26, 2004 by lorenz Posted in anthropology in the news, culture traditions, indigenous people / minorities, Native American, websites

Christian Science Monitor

In the 1830s, native Americans from the eastern half of the United States were being “relocated” to the West, while those already in the West were having their last experience with living in a land that was actually under their own control. At the same time, George Catlin, an ex-lawyer from Philadelphia decided to “gain fame” by recording Indian lives and cultures before they were permanently altered by European influences.

Campfire Stories with George Catlin offers both historical and contemporary perspectives on the meetings and conflicts between native and European worlds.

Online for about two years, this multi-award winning site from the Smithsonian’s American Art Museum uses a Flash interface to showcase its collection of Catlin’s paintings. The paintings are presented with historical documents as well as commentary from modern experts on art, culture and anthropology. >> continue

Christian Science Monitor

In the 1830s, native Americans from the eastern half of the United States were being "relocated" to the West, while those already in the West were having their last experience with living in a land that was actually…

Researchers claim to have solved the mystery of the people who don’t count

Published on August 20, 2004 by lorenz Posted in anthropology in the news, language, Latin- and Central America, Native American, persons and theories

The Guardian

The Piraha of the Amazon have almost legendary status in language research. They have no words at all for number. They use only only three words to count: one, two, many. To make things confusing, the words for one and two, in Piraha, are the same syllable, pronounced with a falling or rising inflection.

And to make things really difficult, the word for one can sometimes mean “roughly one”, and the word for two can sometimes mean “not many”. The Piraha have puzzled anthropologists for decades.

Peter Gordon, a behavioural scientist at Columbia University in New York, reports in Science today that the Piraha may may not be very good at counting because because they do not have the words for it. >> continue

The Guardian

Currently in Geneve: Meeting of the UN Working Group on Indigenous Population

Published on July 23, 2004 by lorenz Posted in anthropology (general), anthropology in the news, indigenous people / minorities, Native American

Main theme for the annual meeting is conflict resolution, the UNPO (Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organisation) writes.

A report was launched at the meeting in Geneva that states the potential for indigenous people to help curb the destruction of forests is being overlooked by the international community, according to a report, the BBC reports.

– The Guaraní community of Tentayapi, in southern Bolivia, one of the last bastions of the indigenous group’s traditional way of life, is fighting to keep a foreign oil company out of its ancestral territory. One of the community’s leaders, Saúl Carayury, told the United Nations Working Group on Indigenous Populations, meeting this week in Geneva, that Maxus Energy, a subsidiary of the Spanish-Argentine firm Repsol-YPF based in Spain, intends to explore and drill for hydrocarbons on communally-owned indigenous land in Tentayapi according to One World England

Main theme for the annual meeting is conflict resolution, the UNPO (Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organisation) writes.

A report was launched at the meeting in Geneva that states the potential for indigenous people to help curb the destruction of forests is…

Saving native languages

Published on July 5, 2004 by lorenz Posted in anthropology in the news, indigenous people / minorities, language, Native American

University of Berkeley News

Chochenyo, the language of the Muwekma Ohlone people, has been silent since the 1930s, but a handful of tribal members working with mentors from the University of California, Berkeley’s linguistics department are bringing it back to life >>continue

University of Berkeley News

Chochenyo, the language of the Muwekma Ohlone people, has been silent since the 1930s, but a handful of tribal members working with mentors from the University of California, Berkeley's linguistics department are bringing it back to life…

Lowly weeds may hold promise for curing host of common health woes

Published on June 9, 2004 by lorenz Posted in anthropology in the news, indigenous people / minorities, Latin- and Central America, medical anthropology / ethnobothany, Native American

Innovations Report

“If I had one place to go to find medicinal plants, it wouldn’t be the forest,” said John Richard Stepp, a University of Florida anthropologist. “There are probably hundreds of weeds growing right outside people’s doors they could use.” He found the area’s Mayan residents use weeds for all sorts of day-to-day illnesses, such as common colds, upset stomachs, skin rashes, and aches and sprains >>continue

Innovations Report

"If I had one place to go to find medicinal plants, it wouldn’t be the forest," said John Richard Stepp, a University of Florida anthropologist. "There are probably hundreds of weeds growing right outside people’s doors they could use."…