Ethnocide, science, ethnosuicide, and the historians of the vanishing
The extirpation of idolatries in the colonial Andes and a few contemporary variants
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7738245 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Laurence Cuelenaere (SMFA at Tufts, USA, corresponding author), José Rabasa (University of California, Berkeley) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 38 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 53-74 |
| Publication date | 2018-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Critique of Anthropology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0308-275X • E-ISSN: 1460-3721 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0308275x17745140 |
| OpenAlex | W2775124846 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 28 |
This article addresses the participation of Indians in cultural genocide or ethnocide. We call the participation in the destruction of one's culture ethnosuicide. This article pays particular attention to the contradictions “salvage anthropology” incurs in its aim to write histories of the vanishing while training research collaborators to objectify their own culture, thereby capturing them (not necessarily successfully) in forms of thought that lead to ethnosuicide. Whereas the intent of the evangelical practices such as the confession clearly calls forth the annihilation of one's culture, the practice of science might have unintended destructive effects. We imagine a hypothetical graduate seminar in which an indigenous student would face the requirement to make sense of his or her world according to categories and forms of interpretation and explanation favored by anthropology. The readings range from Malinowski's initial definition of anthropological salvaging to Vivieros de Castro recent call for an ontological turn. We close with a reading of the Huarochiri manuscript (Peru 1609) that exemplifies the use of native collaborators to produce knowledge for extirpation campaigns in the colonial Andes
Aesthetics · Colonialism · Confession (law · Face (sociological concept · Genocide · Indigenous · Interpretation (philosophy · Linguistics · Political science · Reading (process · Social science · Sociology · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Anthropology · History · Latin American history and culture · Law · Philosophy · Politics and Society in Latin America
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Invaders as Ancestors
Defacement
Theft as "Involuntary Gifting" among the Tacana of Northern Bolivia
Zeno and the Art of Anthropology
Paradoxes of Belief as Perceived in the Uses of Creer, Creencia, and Criyincia in the Northern Bolivian Highlands
Returns
Steps to an Ecology of Mind
What's New? Rethinking Ethnogenesis in the Archaeology of Colonialism
An Aesthetic Education in the Era of Globalization
The Azande
Ethnographic Salvage and the Shaping of Anthropology1
Transmutating beings
Transforming translations (part 2)
Anthropology of Ontologies
The Politics of Perspectivism
The Decolonization of Belief from a Native Perspective
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,14 |
| Citation span | 2019 - 2019 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |