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“Letalidade branca”: antropologia, educação e universidade. Uma entrevista com Felipe Tuxá
Get PDFEsta entrevista realizada com Felipe Sotto Maior Cruz, ou melhor, Felipe Tuxá – antropólogo do povo Tuxá, da Aldeia Mãe de Rodelas, Bahia, primeiro professor indígena da Universidade Federal da Bahia e membro do departamento de Antropologia e Etnologia da mesma instituição – foi parte das atividades do curso “Antropologias Outras: antropologias indígenas”, ministrado no Programa de Pós-graduação em Antropologia da UFBA no segundo semestre de 2022. Conduzida por pessoas que cursaram a disciplina, a entrevista aborda o conceito de “letalidade branca” – cunhado pelo entrevistado –, se debruça sobre os desafios epistemológicos e práticos de uma antropologia indígena, reflete acerca das experiências indígenas no ambiente educativo e suas dificuldades na educação superior, assim como problematiza a importância da presença dos povos indígenas nos espaços universitários, mostrando-nos os obstáculos e as potências de um antropólogo indígena na universidade
Jean E. Jackson: a pioneering ethnographer in the Colombian Amazon
Get PDFThis essay celebrates the work of Jean E. Jackson, a pioneering female ethnographer who devoted most of her fifty-year career to the Indigenous peoples of Colombia. Her research, represented in an extensive set of publications from the early 1970s to the present, engages with themes of identity, stigma, and social inequality, manifested across a range of contexts. Jackson’s ethnographic contributions include her ground-breaking early work on Indigenous Tukanoan society in the Colombian Vaupés, focusing on the practice of linguistic exogamy (obligatory marriage across language groups) among the Bará people. Later, she expanded her focus to address Indigenous experiences in the context of rapid cultural change in Colombia, relating to evolving conceptions of indigeneity and its relationship to the national society, and how these transitions bear on processes and practices associated with identity, multiculturalism, and neoliberalism. A further thread of Jackson’s research, based in the United States, dealt with anthropological perspectives on chronic pain. In this essay, we focus primarily on her pioneering work with Colombian Indigenous peoples, while also considering how this work connects to her other lines of research, and how her explorations of these themes shaped her significant contributions to ethnographic methodology. We also emphasize the relevance of gender as a consistent thread throughout Jackson’s research trajectory—both as a topic of attention in her research and as a pivot point in her own approach as a female ethnographer
The Strength of Community: The Role of Social Support Networks in Sport Officials’ Retention
Get PDFPrevious researchers have indicated that a sense of community and social support are vital to referee retention; however, little is known about the connection between specific characteristics of sports officials’ networks and retention. To better understand the sports officiating shortage, researchers explored the social support networks of 116 referees utilizing egocentric network analysis. The authors suggest that retention of sports officials depends on the interpersonal ties and network structures within which the referees are embedded. Specifically, resulting hierarchical models confirmed that retention relationships among officials are a multilevel phenomenon, and that outside communication and community were vital network characteristics that fostered retention relationships. Network size, tenure, and the officiating level also were significant when considering an official’s network and its impact on retention. Areas for future research and suggestions for referee managers are presented
The Curious Case of Sherman M. Stanage: The Rise of Free Speech and Activism on College Campuses in 1960s America
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A Woman\u27s Journey: Not Done Yet
Get PDFThis collection of poems, stories, travelogues and interviews presents women’s universally shared journeys, and encourages women to embrace risk, courage and social action, to move beyond complacency and restrictions imposed by stereotypic ageism, sexism, inequity, and discrimination. As teacher, scholar, and writer, Karen A. Waldron takes readers with her on travels across continents to reflect on the most challenging questions of our times, while exploring human connectedness and spirituality as a basis for embracing a sense of self-worth and purpose across all stages of life. She reminds us that despite age or personal circumstance, “Women are not done yet.”https://digitalcommons.trinity.edu/mono/1195/thumbnail.jp
Design and Synthesis of New Acyl Urea Analogs as Potential σ1R Selective Ligands
Get PDFIn search of synthetically accessible open-chain analogs of PD144418 or 5-(1-propyl-1,2,5,6-tetrahydropyridin-3-yl)-3-(p-tolyl)isoxazole, a highly potent sigma-1 receptor (σ1R) ligand, we herein report the design and synthesis of sixteen arylated acyl urea derivatives. Design aspects included modeling the target compounds for drug-likeness, docking at σ1R crystal structure 5HK1, and contrasting the lower energy molecular conformers with that of the receptor-embedded PD144418—a molecule we opined that our compounds could mimic pharmacologically. Synthesis of our acyl urea target compounds was achieved in two facile steps which involved first generating the N-(phenoxycarbonyl) benzamide intermediate and then coupling it with the appropriate amines—weakly to strongly nucleophilic amines. Two potential leads (compounds 10 and 12, with respective in vitro σ1R binding affinities of 2.18 and 9.54 μM) emerged from this series. These leads will undergo further structure optimization with the ultimate goal of developing novel σ1R ligands for testing in neurodegeneration models of Alzheimer’s disease (AD)
Vaupés multilingualism and the substance of language
No full textBy focusing on ordinary conversational language, relying on a notion of “group” derived from unilineal descent theory, and neglecting mythology and ritual, studies of Vaupés Tukanoan multilingualism have inadvertently tended to reproduce a Western ideology of language as marking national identity and concerned with conveying meaning. This paper suggests that attention to musical, ritual, and shamanic contexts reveals multilingualism in a different light, with ritual speech acts as constitutive of social groups, names as vehicles of reproduction, and breath as a substance-like bodily element and source of vitality. The more esoteric, rhetorical, musical, or visual ornamentation is given to breath, the more substance, vitality, and strength it possesses
Introduction: Indigenous multilingualism in lowland South America
Get PDFRecent decades have seen an exponential growth in our understanding of the indigenous languages of lowland South America – from their structures and interrelationships to the dynamics of their day-to-day use and the ways they are conceptualized by their speakers. These advances highlight not only the diversity of languages in lowland South America, but also the complexity of the dynamics of interaction among speakers in multilingual settings. The region is home to a range of interactive indigenous ‘regional systems’, such as the Vaupés, Upper Xingu, and other areas, where multiple languages have thrived alongside each other for generations, and interaction has been shaped by practices such as linguistic exogamy, multilingual song repertoires and ceremonial registers, and exchange networks. However, our understanding of these dynamics remains limited, even as they are eroded by new linguistic ecologies imposed by the national society. This special issue brings together a set of articles by scholars working in historically multilingual areas of lowland South America, whose collective experience and scope of interest spans temporal, geographic, and disciplinary perspectives. In the face of the accelerating loss of both linguistic and biological diversity today in the Amazon basin and beyond, the multilingual experiences of indigenous South Americans may have much to teach us about how language, society, and engagement with a range of others may be mutually constitutive and even mutually sustainable
Two multilingual regions in southwestern Amazonia
Get PDFSouthwestern Amazonia is one of the most linguistically diverse regions of the Americas. It is possible that traditional Indigenous small-scale multilingualism used to exist in two neighboring regions in what is now Rondônia, on the Brazilian side of the Guaporé River. Permanent contact with representatives of Western society from the beginning of the twentieth century onwards led to great demographic, social, cultural, and economic upheaval among the Indigenous societies in the Rio Branco-Colorado and the Apediá-Corumbiara river basins. Early ethnographic reports suggest that these societies were characterized by traditional small-scale multilingualism. In this article, I summarize the evidence for this and provide a sketch of how the remainders of traditional multilingualism have codetermined the current situation in southern Rondônia, Brazil