Terms
Ascribed or Achieved
Types of identities. Ascribed being one given by others to someone. Achieved is worked towards by someone or an identity that is "earned".
An arbitrary identification of people that has no scientific backing but DOES have real world consequences.
What is race?
Who were the New Tribes Missions?
What is the savage slot?
The belief that indigenous people fit into a few stereotypes
The practice or renaming parents after their child.
teknonymy
the main drivers for Spanish colonialism
Gold, Glory, and God
This is a heavy debate in the topic of indigenous Christianity. The conversation centers around how much ____ an indigenous person has in this decision.
what is Agency?
An extremely concentrated and marginalized group of people
What is hypermarginality?
The practice of consuming someone from your same cultural group
What is endocannibalism
The three categories of country in the world systems analysis
(Bonus: Explain how the interact with each other)
Core, Periphery, and Semi-Periphery
How did Converting to Christianity affect the Wari’ socially?
Abandoned rituals, Abandoned taboos, Confessed prior killings, adultery, No more corn beer drinking parties, Shift to collective meals & church services, Gave up mortuary endocannibalism
What is neoliberal multiculturalism?
Where identity are celebrated only when they serve market goals.
The right that everyone should be able to hear the word of God in their own language
sola scriptura
The problematic practice of ethnographers writing about how communities used to be rather than how they are at the time of being studied
ethnographic present
Why did the Wari’ practice endocannibalism?
As a mortuary practice. If the body (not considered the person more like a soul's clothes) are not cooked an eaten the soul could not leave the body
Globalization is often seen as a negative and in a log of ways it is. What is one example of how the modern indigenous identity has been affected positively?
(Think music)
indigenous Hip Hop
The belief of a future apocalypse.
(Bonus: Tell me how it Effects the Ayoreo)
What is Apocalyptic Futurism?
Bonus:
"We are very afraid of the Word of God, because the Bible says that he will come again in the near future, and it is a sure thing that he will come. That is why we read the Bible often. It says that he will come again, and we are very afraid."
The events at this mountain are a perfect reflection of Spanish colonial labor practices
(Bonus: Tell me why)
Cerro Rico de Potosí
What is ayipie?
Among the Ayoreo it is the "soul stuff"