byLeslie Sponsel
This new book may be of interest, especially its wealth of new information and perspectives in 427 pages including more than 1,400 citations in the bibliography with websites in the paperback edition.
YANOMAMI IN THE AMAZON:
TOWARD A MORE ETHICAL ANTHROPOLOGY BEYOND OTHERING
Leslie E. Sponsel All royalties are donated to the nonprofit organization Survival International on behalf of their continuing vital work with Yanomami. https://www.survivalinternational.org/ This book is available in paperback and eBook editions at an affordable price from Amazon.com. Paperback: https://www.amazon.com/Yanomami-Amazon-Ethical-Anthropology-Othering/dp/B0B14J7NPG/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1CTTCZC8G3KDT&keywords=Yanomami+in+the+Amazon&qid=1654367767&s=books&sprefix=yanomami+in+the+amazon%2Cstripbooks%2C398&sr=1-1 The eBook has live links to numerous internet resources: https://www.amazon.com/Yanomami-Amazon-Ethical-Anthropology-Othering-ebook/dp/B09VRY4CQP/ref=sr_1_2?crid=3VVY2H7LQSERI&keywords=Yanomami+in+the+Amazon&qid=1654657848&s=books&sprefix=yanomami+in+the+amazon%2Cstripbooks%2C256&sr=1-2 Book Description The Amazonian Yanomami are one of the most fascinating, studied, misrepresented, exploited and endangered Indigenous people. Yanomami in the Amazon provides a systematic and thorough historical perspective on the Yanomami, research about them, and scandals and controversies surrounding a few of the numerous anthropologists who studied with them. Professional ethics and human rights are emphasized. The result is a new perspective on the changing political ecology of the Yanomami and anthropology. The Yanomami case is documented as a component of the “human nature industry” which erroneously and dangerously celebrates the ubiquity of warfare through ideologically driven Hobbesian pseudoscience. One of 14 Endorsements “This is an amazingly comprehensive and authoritative overview of the anthropological, ethical, and moral issues surrounding the Yanomami people, their recent history, their present human rights struggle, and their future….” John H. Bodley, Emeritus Professor of Anthropology, Washington State University, author of Victims of Progress (Sixth Edition 2014). Table of Contents Foreword (Stephen Corry, former Director, Survival International) Preface Chapters 1. Yanomami: Realities and Stereotypes 2. Yanomami Holocaust: Wrongs and Rights 3. Yanomami Research: Past, Present, and Future 4. Yanomami Aggression: Ten Problems Exposed 5. Yanomami Canonical Ethnography: Critical Analysis 6. Professional Ethics: Essential Pivotal Centrality 7. Light in the Darkness: +20 Years Later 8. Napoleon A. Chagnon’s Memoir: Historical Revisionism and Obfuscation 9. Patrick Tierney’s Allegations: Many Remain Unresolved 10. Secrets of the Tribe: Anthropology Publicly Embarrassed Again 11. Advocacy Anthropology: Moral Obligation of Social Relevance 12. Terence S. Turner: Anthropologist Extraordinaire 13. Conclusions: The Other, Otherness, and Othering Appendices 1. Author’s Professional Biography 2. Author’s Background with Yanomami and the Controversy 3. Personal Statement on Ethics in 1974 4. Portions of Letter to Science Exposing Questionable Data Source 5. Inventory of Yanomami Field Studies 6. Human Nature and Nature Versus Nurture 7. Some Key Points 8. Another Case of Historical Revisionism and Obfuscation 9. Yanomami in the Brazilian Amazon 2020-2021 10. Organizations Engaged in Human Rights Advocacy Bibliography This is a companion book: Ethical Anthropology: Responsibilities, Reflections, Resources While ethics in anthropology has deep roots, it was only after World War II, and mostly since the 1960s, that principles of professional ethics were developed and formalized in the profession. Yet ethical challenges, dilemmas, and choices are inevitable. This book explores and reflects on the history, meaning, significance, and application of ethics in anthropology. This is the context of elemental and pivotal questions, such as what is anthropology, who is it for, and how is it practiced to try to avoid harm and to do good? There are no simple, easy, and quick answers to such questions. Often matters can be complicated and difficult, sometimes disturbing. Nevertheless, it is imperative to seriously and systematically consider ethics in anthropology for the benefit of individual anthropologists, the profession, and most of all, for the people it studies. All royalties from this book are also donated to Survival International. Paperback: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0B2V3W3HT/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1CKKB1C8Y5P9Y&keywords=Ethical+Anthropology&qid=1654367379&s=books&sprefix=ethical+anthropology%2Cstripbooks%2C157&sr=1-1 eBook: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0B1T7JBML/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3M666VPYW82UZ&keywords=Ethical+Anthropology&qid=1653028356&s=books&sprefix=ethical+anthropology%2Cstripbooks%2C165&sr=1-1 Author Leslie E. Sponsel, with the B.A. in Geology from Indiana University and the M.A. and Ph.D. in Biological Anthropology from Cornell University, is Professor Emeritus at the University of Hawai`i. From 1974 to 1981 Sponsel conducted trips to the Venezuelan Amazon to study biological and cultural aspects of ecology with Yanomami and other Indigenous societies. Since 1986 he usually visits annually Thailand to study Buddhist ecology and environmentalism, in recent years focusing on sacred caves. Among other books, Sponsel edited Indigenous Peoples and the Future of Amazonia: An Ecological Anthropology of an Endangered World, and Nonkilling Anthropology: A New Approach to Studying Human Nature, War, and Peace. For more information about the author and 14 book endorsements please see: https://www.amazon.com/~/e/B008JDU712. ************** This is an official listserv of the Anthropology & Environment Society of the American Anthropological Association. It is restricted to posting announcements and news items related to ecological and environmental anthropology only. Responses to or comments on announcements and news are not allowed. 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