Title The ethics of anthropology and Amerindian research : reporting on environmental degradation and warfare / Richard J. Chacon, Rubén G. Mendoza, editors

Published New York : Springer, ©2012

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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 521 pages) : illustrations (some color) Contents Ethical and political ramifications of the reporting/non-reporting of Native American ritualized violence / Christopher W. Schmidt and Rachel A. Lockhart Sharkey -- Pre-Columbian warfare and indecorous images in southeastern North America / Charles R. Cobb and Dawnie Wolfe Steadman -- The portrayal of Native American violence and warfare : who speaks for the past? / David H. Dye and M. Franklin Keel -- Catawba Indians' adaptive response to colonialism / Brooke Bauer -- Maya hunting sustainability : perspectives from past and present / Kitty F. Emery and Linda A. Brown -- Sympathetic ethnocentrism, repression, and auto-repression of Q'eqchi' Maya blood sacrifice / Arthur A. Demarest and Brent Woodfill -- Relativism, revisionism, aboriginalism, and emic/etic truth : the case study of Apocalypto / Richard D. Hansen -- Mythologies of conquest / Rubén G. Mendoza and Shari R. Harder -- Imagining human alteration of ancient landscapes in Central and South America / John W. Hoopes -- Overstating, downplaying, and denying Indigenous conquest warfare in pre-Hispanic empires of the Andes / Dennis E. Ogburn -- Violence, Indigeneity, and archaeological interpretation in the Central Andes / Elizabeth Arkush -- Conservation or resource maximization? : analyzing subsistence hunting among the Achuar (Shiwiar) of Ecuador / Richard J. Chacon -- The studied avoidance of war as an instrument of political evolution / Robert L. Carneiro -- Medical ramifications of failing to acknowledge Amerindian warfare, violence, social inequality, and cultural enigmas / John Walden -- Ancestral pueblos and modern diatribes : an interview with Antonio Chavarria of Santa Clara Pueblo, Curator of Ethnology, Museum of Indian Arts and Culture, Santa Fe, New Mexico / Antonio Chavarria and Rubén G. Mendoza -- Indigenous peoples and environmental degradation : an Indigenous perspective / Alberto Esquit-Choy -- The logic of Indigenous voice / M. Gregory Oakes -- Discussion and conclusions / Richard J. Chacon and Rubén G. Mendoza Summary The decision to publish scholarly findings bearing on the question of Amerindian environmental degradation, warfare, and/or violence is one that weighs heavily on anthropologists. This burden stems from the fact that documentation of this may render¡ Indigenous communities vulnerable to a host of predatory agendas and hostile modern forces. Consequently, some anthropologists and community advocates alike argue that such culturally and socially sensitive, and thereby, politically volatile information regarding Amerindian-induced environmental degradation and warfare should not be reported. This admonition presents a conundrum for anthropologists and other social scientists employed in the academy or who work at the behest of tribal entities. This work documents the various ethical dilemmas that confront anthropologists, and researchers in general, when investigating Amerindian communities. The contributions to this volume explore the ramifications of reporting--and, specfically, --of non-reporting instances of environmental degradation and warfare among Amerindians. Collectively, the contributions in this volume, which extend across the disciplines of archaeology, anthropology, ethnohistory, ethnic studies, philosophy, and medicine, argue that the non-reporting of environmental mismanagement and violence in Amerindian communities generally harms not only the field of anthropology but the Amerindian populations themselves Analysis Social sciences Ethics Anthropology Archaeology Regional and Cultural Studies Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record In Springer eBooks Subject Anthropological ethics. Ethnology -- Moral and ethical aspects -- America Indians of North America -- Warfare. Indians of North America -- Rites and ceremonies. BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Business Ethics. Sciences sociales. Sciences humaines. Anthropological ethics Ethnology -- Moral and ethical aspects Indians of North America -- Rites and ceremonies Indians of North America -- Warfare America Form Electronic book Author Chacon, Richard J., 1959- Mendoza, Rubén G., 1956- ISBN 9781461410652 1461410657

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