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Anthropologist as Political Actor

Ramos, Alícida Rita·1999·Journal of Latin American Anthropology
DOI 10.1525/jlca.1999.4.2.172
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Abstract

To do anthropology is a political act anywhere in the world, regardless of the anthropologist's degree of awareness and recognition of this fact. Taking the plight of the Yanomami Indians in Brazil and the involvement of Brazilian anthropologists in the defense of indigenous rights, the article discusses the expectations and constrictions involved in anthropological work, particularly in the role of anthropologists as expert witnesses, in the politicized context of interethnic relations. When anthropologists are caught between the demands for 'expertise' and their actual capacity to 'represent the Other,' their predicament as political actors comes to the fore. However, the author argues, we are agents in a complex political arena, in the field of interethnic relations or anywhere else anthropologists work, whether we like it or not. This article begins the exploration of an important and challenging issue for the next decade of our work.

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  1. Albert Bruce, 1989, Indian Lands, Environmental Policy and Geopolitics of Amazonian Development in Brazil: The Yanomami Case. Urihi. 8
  2. Albert Bruce, 1995, Les applications de l'anthropologie. Un essai de réflexion collective depuis la France, 87
  3. Ferraz Iara, 1975, Projeto de emergência para a coordenação da safra de castanha de 1976 pelos índios Gavies de Oeste do PI Me Maria
  4. OliveiraFilho JooPachecode1994Os instrumentos de bordo: Expectativas e possibilidades do trabalho do antropólogo em laudos periciais. InA Perícia Antropológica em Processes Judiciais.Orlando SampaioSilva LídiaLuz andCecíliaM.V.Helm eds. Pp.115–139.
  5. Ramos Alcida Rita, 1990, Terra e sobrevivência cultural Yanomami. Urihi, 13
  6. Ramos Alcida Rita, 1995, Sanumá Memories: A Yanomami Ethnography in Times of Crisis
  7. Ramos Alcida Rita, 1995, Ya no Hay Lugar para Cazadores. Procesos de extinción y transfiguración étnica en América Latina, 55
  8. Taylor Kenneth I., 1979, Yanoama in Brazil 1979, 43
  9. Taylor Kenneth I., 1983, Las necesidades de tierra de los Yanomami, América Indígena, 43, 629

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Authors
Ramos, A. R.
Affiliations
Universidade de Brasília (BR)
Corresponding author
Ramos, Alícida Rita
Venue
Journal of Latin American Anthropology
Publisher
Wiley
Published
1999-03
Volume
4
Issue
2
Pages
172-189
ISSN
1085-7052 (ISSN-L)
DOI
10.1525/jlca.1999.4.2.172
OpenAlex
W2008709916
Cited by
64
References
12
Citations by year
2025: 6 · 2023: 6 · 2022: 14 · 2021: 2 · 2020: 2 · 2019: 2 · 2018: 1 · 2017: 2 · 2015: 1 · 2014: 3 · 2013: 2 · 2012: 10
FWCI
3.87
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Licence
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/termsAndConditions#vor (vor, 3407 d)
Locations
  • The Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology (publishedVersion)
  • Hispana (submittedVersion)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Anthropology › Anthropology: Ethics, History, Culture
  • Social Sciences › Anthropology › Anthropological Studies and Insights
  • Social Sciences › Anthropology › Indigenous Cultures and History
Keywords
Yanomami, indigenous rights, expert witnesses, interethnic relations, representation of the other, expertise, Brazilian anthropology

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