Janet Chernela
Biographic Data
| ID | 88291 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Janet Chernela |
| GIVEN NAMES | Janet |
| FAMILY NAME | Chernela |
| SIGNATURE | CHERNELA J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Florida International University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 80 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 189 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 80 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1989 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
The subaltern speak
To answer Gayatri Spivak's question, 'Can the subaltern speak?' this article examines a historic case in which Indigenous women from Brazil filed a claim of illegal trafficking before the Russell Tribunal on human rights. By means of the 'soft' litigation of international human rights mechanisms, the tribunal provided a platform for marginalized victims and witnesses to provide testimony before a global audience. The case opened new legal pathway…
The Work of Desire
After three decades of debate, the model known as a “symbolic economy of alterity,” intended as a means through which we might understand the native peoples of Lowland South America, continues to engage our attention and to generate further debate. It has been listed as one of three elements in an “Amazonian Package” of characteristics thought to be shared throughout the basin (Londoño-Sulkin 2012, 2017), and it has been credited with the growing…
The Great Pirahã Brouhaha
Claims made by linguist Daniel Everett, that the Pirahã language, spoken by a small group of native Amazonians, lacks features thought to be universally present in languages, captured the imaginations of scholars and prompted broader questions on the nature of language, the diversity in languages, and the universals shared by them. Everett claimed that, in Pirahã, he had found a language without numbers, colors, mythology, abstract thinking, or r…
Detecting vulnerability of humid tropical forests to multiple stressors
The Work and Influence of Robert L. Carneiro, Cultural Evolutionist and Pioneer in Amazonian Anthropology
Some Considerations of Myth and Gender in a Northwest Amazon Society
The Uanano are a linguistically-distinct group of the Eastern Tukanoan family, inhabiting the Uaupes basin in Brazil and Colombia. Numbering approximately 1,500, the Uanano group is one of 15-20 linguistically exogamous fishing and horticultural peoples who form an integrated, intermarrying system in the Northwest Amazon. The Uanano conceive of themselves as a group of agnates descended from ancestral brothers born of the body of an anaconda. Eac…
Two anthropologists recall Dominique Buchillet
Dominique Buchillet (Janet Chernela) Dominique Buchillet, the anthropologist who pioneered medical anthropology in the Upper Rio Negro of Brazil, passed away on June 9, 2018 in Brest, France. She was recognized for her tireless research and publication in the field of indigenous health practices as well as her dedication to the people with whom she worked. In 1975 Buchillet received an undergraduate degree in psychology from the Université Paris …
Language in an ontological register
An End to Difference
This article considers a set of postcards purchased in the Amazonian city of Manaus between the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The cards upend the prominent narrative suggested in most visual imagery of the period that depicts the Amazon basin as a wilderness peopled with uncivilized natives. The postcards, instead, portray a technoscape of urban modernity-orderly, not chaotic; domesticated, not wild. Missing from the sanguine dep…
Native Brazil
The absence of native voices in historical accounts of the Americas is due, at least in part, to the canons of historic scholarship. The present volume sets out to correct this by gleaning new interpretations from conventional sources such as clerical records, military archives, civil registries, court documents, and official correspondence, as well as unconventional resources such as maps, ethnographies, and oral accounts.The book's eight chapte…
Directions of Existence
Enquanto a maior parte da literatura sobre populações indígenas enfatiza o apego aos lugares, tomando qualquer movimento fora dos territórios tradicionais como uma perda de identidade, o caso da mobilidade das mulheres Tukano do Alto Rio Negro para a cidade de Manaus, no Brasil, ilustra a importância da mobilidade e agilidade, mais que permanência ou territorialidade, como importantes recursos. Fugindo de condições de trabalho forçado, as mulhere…
Limits to Knowledge
Despite widespread recognition of the importance of community-conservation partnerships, problems continue to emerge. In this paper we examine one such interaction to propose that outside organisations have wrongly associated the delimitations of the habitational space with the extent of community allegiances and moral economies. Such oversights can lead to project withdrawal, as they did in one case of an ecotourism proposal among the indigenous…
Fire and Ice
A fundamental challenge in conversations made at the frontiers of globalization is the degree to which international representatives and local interlocutors understand one another. Decisions made at such
Amazonia and the Origin of the State
A. in political science from the University of Michigan in 1949.He continued graduate study in anthropology at the same institution, where he was a student of Leslie White, the well-known evolutionary anthropologist.In 1953-54, with his wife Gertrude Dole, he conducted fieldwork among the Kuikuru of the Xingu National Park in Brazil.That work, among the earliest systematic fieldwork to be carried out in the Xingu River basin, provided the basis f…
Mascarading the Voice
In constructing “texts of the self” in spontaneous song, Wanano women draw on rhetorical and grammatical devices to distance and deflect themselves from the impact of their utterances. Through attributing words to others, the number of contributing voices is multiplied, as the animator’s (singer’s) own dominance is performatively diminished. A fracturing of speaker roles allows for the presentation of differing positionalities and epistemic attit…
Indigenous Rights and Ethno-Development
Following a successful campaign to end the unlawful practices of trafficking that brought them to Manaus, indigenous Tukanoan women from the Upper Rio Negro established a local indigenous organization with which to plan and manage their own ethno-development, including cultural heritage activities, institution building, revenue development, health and legal services, community, and other initiatives. The case provides an opportunity to explore in…
Barriers Natural and Unnatural
This article considers ecotourism among the Kuna of the San Blas Archipelago in Panama, using the term I use the concept of islamiento to describe both 'isolation' and 'island-isation' as central metaphors to understand Kuna strategies in demarcating tourist and community spaces. The local autonomy exemplified by the Kuna in tourism is just one transformation of the way in which they utilise island configurations as a source of physical and ideol…
Nukak
The Second World of Wanano Women
Public Anthropology
Documenting COP-15
Opposition in the Time of Avatar
Gretchen E Schafft is contributing editor of "Human Rights Forum," the AAA Committee for Human Rights column in Anthropology News. Keywords: Brazil, South America, economic development, indigenous peoples
Ideologies of Heritage
While analysts and practitioners today recognize that heritage entails processes of both "preservation" and "innovation," most face challenges when it comes to finding methodologies capable of capturing these apparently contradictory and elusive attributes. The problem lies, in part, in reconciling notions of a stable, authorized past, on the one hand, and dynamic constructions of the past, on the other. Erve Chambers addresses this duality by di…
Actualidades Lex Talionis
The Politics of Suffrage and Constructions of Identities Commentary on "State-led Democratic Politics …"
Language Ideology and Women's Speech
Taking the Northwest Amazon of Brazil as its example, this article argues for the analytic concept of a "speech culture," combining, but heuristically separating, speech practice and language ideology. In the Northwest Amazon, an ideology of language establishes an equivalence between linguistic performance and descent group belonging. In contrast to the fixed, normative notions of groupness, this article explores the dynamic construction of soci…
The Wanano Indians of the Brazilian Amazon
The Politics of Mediation
The proliferation of a nongovernmental sector held the promise of linking local actors with national and international ones, thereby contributing to a highly participatory, Habermasian ideal in which the formerly marginalized would find greater participation and expression. Yet the role of international agents in community-based resource management projects has recently come under scrutiny. In addressing these issues in this article, I consider t…
Language in an ontological register
Footprints of the Forest
Comparison of parasite burdens in two native Amazonian populations
(1989). Comparison of parasite burdens in two native Amazonian populations. Medical Anthropology: Vol. 10, No. 4, pp. 279-285
Indigenous South Americans of the Past and Present
Indigenous South Americans of the Past and Present: An Ecological Perspective. David J. Wilson. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1999. 480 pp
Social meaning and material transaction
This article examines the social meaning of material transactions among the Wanano-Tukano of the Uaupés River region of Brazil and Colombia. It argues that the circulation of goods and services in this society cannot be understood solely in terms of economic or ecological factors, but must be analyzed in relation to the social and symbolic contexts in which they occur. The article focuses on the complex network of reciprocal obligations that link…
Marriage, Language, and History Among Eastern Speaking Peoples of the Northwest Amazon
The Wanano Indians of the Brazilian Amazon
Directions of Existence
Enquanto a maior parte da literatura sobre populações indígenas enfatiza o apego aos lugares, tomando qualquer movimento fora dos territórios tradicionais como uma perda de identidade, o caso da mobilidade das mulheres Tukano do Alto Rio Negro para a cidade de Manaus, no Brasil, ilustra a importância da mobilidade e agilidade, mais que permanência ou territorialidade, como importantes recursos. Fugindo de condições de trabalho forçado, as mulhere…
The Second World of Wanano Women
Yanomami Warfare
Yanomami Warfare: A Political History. R. BRIAN FERGUSON. Santa Fe, NM: School of American Research Press, 1995. xiv + 449 pp., maps, notes, references, index
Shamanistic Journeys and Anthropological Travels
The AA. offer two instances of the anthropologist's engagement in local curing sequences as examples of the agreement of identities between anthropologist and shaman. This similitude of culturally disparate roles is rooted in the power generally derived from the foreign and apart. It also comes from the nature of shamanism as the world's only universal « specialty », a congery of cures, techniques, and packages knowledge. The AA. conclude that th…
From the Enemy's Point of View
Conflicting Cultures of Nature
Despite advancements in the design and implementation of ecotourism, the educational component of ecotourism has received little attention in comparison to ecological, economic and other social factors. This article discusses the unexplored conventions of education as a form of empowerment in ecotourism through the case study of a pilot ecotourism project co-managed by an ecologist, an anthropologist and a Kayapó indigenous community in Brazil. D…
"The "Ideal Speech Moment
An End to Difference
This article considers a set of postcards purchased in the Amazonian city of Manaus between the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The cards upend the prominent narrative suggested in most visual imagery of the period that depicts the Amazon basin as a wilderness peopled with uncivilized natives. The postcards, instead, portray a technoscape of urban modernity-orderly, not chaotic; domesticated, not wild. Missing from the sanguine dep…
How Real People Ought to Live
How Real People Ought to Live: The Cashinahua of Eastern Peru. Kenneth M. Kensinger. Prospect Heights, IL: Waveland Press, Inc., 1995. vi. 305 pp., figures, photographs, notes, bibliography, index
Mascarading the Voice
In constructing “texts of the self” in spontaneous song, Wanano women draw on rhetorical and grammatical devices to distance and deflect themselves from the impact of their utterances. Through attributing words to others, the number of contributing voices is multiplied, as the animator’s (singer’s) own dominance is performatively diminished. A fracturing of speaker roles allows for the presentation of differing positionalities and epistemic attit…
Documenting COP-15
The UN and Indigenous Peoples
Non-refereed
Symbolic Inaction in Rituals of Gender and Procreation among the Garifuna (Black Caribs) of Honduras
The Great Pirahã Brouhaha
Claims made by linguist Daniel Everett, that the Pirahã language, spoken by a small group of native Amazonians, lacks features thought to be universally present in languages, captured the imaginations of scholars and prompted broader questions on the nature of language, the diversity in languages, and the universals shared by them. Everett claimed that, in Pirahã, he had found a language without numbers, colors, mythology, abstract thinking, or r…
Indigenous Rights and Ethno-Development
Following a successful campaign to end the unlawful practices of trafficking that brought them to Manaus, indigenous Tukanoan women from the Upper Rio Negro established a local indigenous organization with which to plan and manage their own ethno-development, including cultural heritage activities, institution building, revenue development, health and legal services, community, and other initiatives. The case provides an opportunity to explore in…
Marriage, Language, and History Among Eastern Speaking Peoples of the Northwest Amazon
Archival Findings at Museu Paraense Emillo Goeldl In Brazil
Comparison of parasite burdens in two native Amazonian populations
(1989). Comparison of parasite burdens in two native Amazonian populations. Medical Anthropology: Vol. 10, No. 4, pp. 279-285
Sojourners of the Caribbean
The Kayapó
The Kayapó: Out of the Forest. 1989. Granada: Disappearing World Series. Produced and directed by Mike Beckham. with anthropologist Terry Turner. 52 minutes, color. Purchase $99.00 (video); rental $90.00 from Films Incorporated, 5547 N. Ravenswood, Chicago, IL 60640‐1199 (800/323‐ 4222 ext.43
The Kayapo
Symbolic Inaction in Rituals of Gender and Procreation among the Garifuna (Black Caribs) of Honduras
Social meaning and material transaction
This article examines the social meaning of material transactions among the Wanano-Tukano of the Uaupés River region of Brazil and Colombia. It argues that the circulation of goods and services in this society cannot be understood solely in terms of economic or ecological factors, but must be analyzed in relation to the social and symbolic contexts in which they occur. The article focuses on the complex network of reciprocal obligations that link…
From the Enemy's Point of View
The Wanano Indians of the Brazilian Amazon
The Wanano Indians of the Brazilian Amazon
Shamanistic Journeys and Anthropological Travels
The AA. offer two instances of the anthropologist's engagement in local curing sequences as examples of the agreement of identities between anthropologist and shaman. This similitude of culturally disparate roles is rooted in the power generally derived from the foreign and apart. It also comes from the nature of shamanism as the world's only universal « specialty », a congery of cures, techniques, and packages knowledge. The AA. conclude that th…
Footprints of the Forest
Keepers of the Sacred Chants
Keepers of the Sacred Chants: The Poetics of Ritual and Power in an Amazonian Society. Jonathan D. Hill .Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1993. 245 pp
Dance of the Dolphin
The Social Causes of Environmental Destruction in Latin America
The Social Causes of Environmental Destruction in Latin America
Cross‐genre talk
Clark, Herbert H. Arenas of Language Use. Chicago: University of Chicago Press and the Center for the Study of Language and Information, 1992. xviii + 419 pp. including notes, references, and index. $47.50 cloth, $19.95 paper. Tannen, Deborah, ed. Gender and Conversational Interaction. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993. xiv + 327 pp. including notes, references, and index. $45.00 cloth, $16.95 paper. Burke, Peter. The Art of Conversation. I…
"The "Ideal Speech Moment
The Last Cannibals
Mere morality
Yanomami Warfare
Yanomami Warfare: A Political History. R. BRIAN FERGUSON. Santa Fe, NM: School of American Research Press, 1995. xiv + 449 pp., maps, notes, references, index
Death, Memory, and Language
Principles ousted one another, heroes of the mind overthrew each other with unheard-of rapidity, and in the last three years ... , more of the past was swept away in Germany than at other times in three centuries
How Real People Ought to Live
How Real People Ought to Live: The Cashinahua of Eastern Peru. Kenneth M. Kensinger. Prospect Heights, IL: Waveland Press, Inc., 1995. vi. 305 pp., figures, photographs, notes, bibliography, index
Guyana, Fragile Frontier
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