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DESCRIPTION:The Yanomami Industry:\nAnother Kind of Mining Invasion.\n\nThe Yanomami in the Amazon of Brazil and Venezuela are one of the\nmost fascinating, studied, and endangered Indigenous people in the world, yet often unethically misrepresented and seriously exploited.\nThere is even something identified here as the Yanomami Industry, a second kind of mining invasion. It encompasses a broad and diverse complex as demonstrated in revealing cases, some shocking and disturbing. Examples identified and critically discussed include some publications in anthropology and for the broader public, photos, films, and a variety of products for sale. Many individuals and organizations are greedily exploiting the Yanomami for monetary profit without any compensation or reciprocity for\nthem, a kind of colonialism that may be harmful. This is antithetical to\nYanomami culture wherein reciprocity is the pivotal core value.\nThe extraordinary world-wide fascination with the Yanomami facilitates this industry, and the industry generates the fascination as well. \nAll of this raises very serious social, political, moral, and ethical\nconcerns, including issues of cultural appropriation, cultural\nmisrepresentation, and intellectual property rights. There may be parallels\nwith other Indigenous peoples. Thus, the case of the Yanomami Industry\ncan provoke serious consideration, and perhaps even some introspection,\nrethinking, and revisioning regarding ethnographic conduct in general.\n\nLeslie E. Sponsel, with the B.A. in geology from Indiana University\nand the M.A. and Ph.D. in biological anthropology from Cornell University,\nis Professor Emeritus at the University of Hawai`i in Manoa.\n\nFrom 1974 to 1981 Sponsel conducted field trips to the Venezuelan\nAmazon to research biological and cultural aspects of the ecology of\nhunting with Yanomami and other Indigenous societies. Since 1986 he\nusually visits annually Thailand to research Buddhist ecology and\nenvironmentalism, in recent years focusing on sacred caves.\nAmong his numerous publications are the books Indigenous Peoples\nand the Future of Amazonia: An Ecological Anthropology of an Endangered\nWorld, and Yanomami in the Amazon: Toward a more Ethical Anthropology\nbeyond Othering.
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SUMMARY;LANGUAGE=en-us:Anthropology Colloquium Fall Series with Dr. Les Sponsel
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