Michael F Brown
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 86194 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Michael F Brown |
| NOMBRES | Michael F |
| APELLIDO | Brown |
| FIRMA | BROWN M F |
| AFILIACIONES | Williams College |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2327-4744 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 70 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 635 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 70 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1980 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2016 |
| ÍNDICE H | 12 |
Douglas W. Schwartz
Tsewa's Gift
The Possibilities and Perils of Heritage Management
Although the right of communities to practice their culture and defend it from unwanted appropriation is widely regarded as a human right, the precise means by which this right can be defended and administered remains uncertain. The very notion of ‘managing’ a society’s multiple forms of collective expression entails a degree of objectification that poses a potential threat to culture’s inherent (and necessary) fluidity. This chapter considers th…
Upriver
In this story of one man's encounter with an indigenous people of Peru, Michael Brown guides his readers upriver into a contested zone of the Amazonian frontier, where more than 50,000 Awajún—renowned for pugnacity and fierce independence—use hard-won political savvy, literacy, and digital skills to live life on their own terms, against long odds
Queer Cultural Geographies - We're Here! We're Queer! We're over There, Too
Urarina Society, Cosmology, and History in Peruvian Amazonia . Bartholomew Dean
Indigeneidades contemporáneas
Durante los últimos siglos, muchas sociedades tribales han sido aniquiladas por la guerra, la enfermedad, la explotación y la asimilación cultural. Sin embargo, lejos de desaparecer, como alguna vez se vaticinó, los pueblos nativos hoy se muestran fortalecidos e incluso crecen en términos demográficos. Así, los pueblos indígenas han afirmado su lugar en la cultura, la economía y la política mundial del siglo XXI, a pesar de lo heterogéneo de sus …
Culture, Property, and Peoplehood
First, the good news: Carpenter, Katyal, and Riley make a compelling case that the venerable concept of property-long defined primarily by such principles as transferability and rights of exclusion and control-should be broadened to encompass a robust ideal of stewardship. In doing so, "In Defense of Property" (henceforth, IDP) renders property more compatible with the indigenous view of things. This significant contribution to ongoing global deb…
A tale of three buildings
One expression of the spread of auditing and bureaucratic accountability in global society is the emergence of certifications of virtue, typically after completion of a review process designed to ensure objectivity. In this article, I analyze regulatory interactions in a U.S. construction project, including the procedure for formally certifying buildings as energy efficient and "sustainable," to bring into focus the sometimes-paradoxical effects …
Exhibiting Indigenous Heritage in the Age of Cultural Property
Who Owns Native Culture
From Foetid Air to Filth
Eighteenth-and early nineteenth-century ideas about the occurrence and spread of epidemic disease were complex and contested. Although many thought that diseases such as plague, typhus, and cholera were contagious and were communicated from person to person or via the medium of goods, others believed that they were the product of atmospheric change. Moreover, as historians have emphasized, the early nineteenth century saw a move from a multifacto…
Landscapes of Power and Identity
Book review of Landscapes of Power and Identity: Comparative Histories in the Sonoran Desert and the Forests of Amazonia from Colony to Republic. Cynthia Radding. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2005. 432 pp., 27 figures, 2 maps, 19 tables, bibliography, index. ISBN 0-8223-3652-9
Anthropology of/in Circulation
In a conversation format, seven anthropologists with extensive expertise in new digital technologies, intellectual property, and journal publishing discuss issues related to open access, the anthropology of information circulation, and the future of scholarly societies. Among the topics discussed are current anthropological research on open source and open access; the effects of open access on traditional anthropological topics; the creation of c…
Cultural Relativism 2.0
Cultural relativism continues to be closely identified with anthropology even though few anthropologists today endorse the comprehensive version of it first articulated by students of Franz Boas. A review of the progressive reduction of the scope of cultural relativism since the early decades of the twentieth century suggests that it should be regarded not as a comprehensive theory or doctrine but as a rule of thumb that when used prudently serve…
Liberating Culture
Liberating Culture: C ross-Cultural Perspectives on Museums, Curation and Heritage Preservation. Christina F. Kreps. London: Routledge, 2003. 185 pp
Heritage Trouble
A major factor driving contemporary concerns about the fate of intangible cultural property is the rise of the Information Society, which has proven adept at stripping information from the cultural contexts that give it meaning. Efforts to preserve intangible heritage have tended to follow Information Society models by proposing that heritage be inventoried, then removed from the public domain and returned to the exclusive control of its putative…
Yanomami
Who Owns Native Culture?
Commentary
Weaving a Book into the Web
In Amazonia
In Amazonia: A Natural History. Hugh Raffles. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2002. xiii + 302 pp., notes, bibliography, index. $55.00 (cloth), $17.95 (paper). ISBN0-691-04884-3, ISBN 0-691-04885-1. [www.pup.princeton.edu
Going Native. Tom Harmer
Worlds Overturned
This chapter examines gender revolutions in which religious change is accompanied by remarkable alterations in traditional relations between men and women. Through examples of three cases studies from Canela, Ilahita, and Kaliai, it examines the circumstances in which societies reject male religious control and raise women to positions of moral authority. Following this, the chapter addresses the question of whether these revolutions produce perm…
The Channeling Zone
Journal Article The Channeling Zone: American Spirituality in an Anxious Age, by Michael F. Brown. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1997, 191 pp.+, $22.00 (cloth), $14.00 (paper) Get access Joan B. Townsend Joan B. Townsend Professor Emeritus University of Manitoba Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sociology of Religion, Volume 62, Issue 3, Fall 2001, Pages 404–405, https://doi.org/10.2307/3712358 Pu…
Forum
Can Culture Be Copyrighted
The digital revolution has dramatically increased the ability of individuals and corporations to appropriate and profit from the cultural knowledge of indigenous peoples, which is largely unprotected by existing intellectual property law. In response, legal scholars, anthropologists, and native activists now propose new legal regimes designed to defend indigenous cultures by radically expanding the notion of copyright. Unfortunately, these propos…
Heritage Trouble
A major factor driving contemporary concerns about the fate of intangible cultural property is the rise of the Information Society, which has proven adept at stripping information from the cultural contexts that give it meaning. Efforts to preserve intangible heritage have tended to follow Information Society models by proposing that heritage be inventoried, then removed from the public domain and returned to the exclusive control of its putative…
Facing the State, Facing the World
Brown Michael F. Facing the State, Facing the World : Amazonia's Native Leaders and the New Politics of Identity. In: L'Homme, 1993, tome 33 n°126-128. La remontée de l'Amazone. pp. 307-326
Shamanism and Its Discontents
Shamanistic healing is often represented in the anthropological literature as a dyadic transactional process in which the shaman helps the patient find meaning in the face of the disordering impact of an illness. A close textual analysis of a curing session among the Aguaruna Jívaro of Peru reveals that the experience created through the ritual is markedly polyphonic rather than dyadic, the clients subtly vying with the shaman to shape the sessio…
War of Shadows
This is the story of a failed uprising in the Peruvian Amazon—told largely by people who were there. Late in 1965, Asháninka Indians, members of one of the Amazon's largest native tribes, joined forces with Marxist revolutionaries who had opened a guerrilla front in Asháninka territory. They fought, and were crushed by, the overwhelming military force of the Peruvian government. Why did the Indians believe this alliance would deliver them from po…
Cultural Relativism 2.0
Cultural relativism continues to be closely identified with anthropology even though few anthropologists today endorse the comprehensive version of it first articulated by students of Franz Boas. A review of the progressive reduction of the scope of cultural relativism since the early decades of the twentieth century suggests that it should be regarded not as a comprehensive theory or doctrine but as a rule of thumb that when used prudently serve…
Beyond Resistance
Recent studies of millenarian movements in tribal societies have tended to interpret them as expressions of resistance to colonial or neocolonial domination. Through a comparison of five case studies of indigenous millenarianism drawn from the history of lowland South America, this essay identifies aspects of utopian renewal that reflect internal political processes and contradictions independent of, and probably predating, native encounters with…
Power, Gender, and the Social Meaning of Aguaruna Suicide
Anthropology of/in Circulation
In a conversation format, seven anthropologists with extensive expertise in new digital technologies, intellectual property, and journal publishing discuss issues related to open access, the anthropology of information circulation, and the future of scholarly societies. Among the topics discussed are current anthropological research on open source and open access; the effects of open access on traditional anthropological topics; the creation of c…
The role of words in Aguaruna hunting magic
In their interpretations of magical acts and utterances, anthropologists frequently argue that magic and technology are informed by two different kinds of logic, the former "expressive" in character, the latter "instrumental." A close analysis of magical hunting songs used by the Aguaruna of Amazonian Peru reveals that the songs are part of a general ordering process that encompasses the strategic use of thoughts, speech, objects, and acts to ach…
A tale of three buildings
One expression of the spread of auditing and bureaucratic accountability in global society is the emergence of certifications of virtue, typically after completion of a review process designed to ensure objectivity. In this article, I analyze regulatory interactions in a U.S. construction project, including the procedure for formally certifying buildings as energy efficient and "sustainable," to bring into focus the sometimes-paradoxical effects …
Upriver
In this story of one man's encounter with an indigenous people of Peru, Michael Brown guides his readers upriver into a contested zone of the Amazonian frontier, where more than 50,000 Awajún—renowned for pugnacity and fierce independence—use hard-won political savvy, literacy, and digital skills to live life on their own terms, against long odds
Culture, Property, and Peoplehood
First, the good news: Carpenter, Katyal, and Riley make a compelling case that the venerable concept of property-long defined primarily by such principles as transferability and rights of exclusion and control-should be broadened to encompass a robust ideal of stewardship. In doing so, "In Defense of Property" (henceforth, IDP) renders property more compatible with the indigenous view of things. This significant contribution to ongoing global deb…
Who Owns What Spirits Share? Reflections on Commodification and Intellectual Property in New Age America
Aguaruna Jivaro Gardening Magic in the Alto Rio Mayo, Peru
Systeme de croyances et rituels associes a l'horticulture chez les Jivaro Aguaruna du Perou. Mode de subsistance des Aguaruna. Symbolisme spirituel du jardin. Chants consacres au jardin| pierres magiques
Millenarian Vision, Capitalist Reality
Why did a millenarian movement erupt in the Brazilian interior in 1912? Setting out to answer this deceptively simple question, Todd A. Diacon delivers a fascinating account of a culture in crisis. Combining oral history with detailed archival research, Millenarian Vision, Capitalist Reality depicts a peasant community whose security in economic, social, and religious relations was suddenly disrupted by the intrusion of international capital. Dia…
Liberating Culture
Liberating Culture: C ross-Cultural Perspectives on Museums, Curation and Heritage Preservation. Christina F. Kreps. London: Routledge, 2003. 185 pp
Commentary
In Favor of Deceit
Toward a human ecology
Etkin, Nina L., ed. Plants in Indigenous Medicine and Diet: Biobehavioral Approaches. Bedford Hills, New York: Redgrave Publishing Company, 1986. xi + 336 pp. including chapter references and index. $24.95 cloth. Wagner, H., H. Hikino, and N.R. Farnsworth, eds. Economic and Medicinal Plant Research, Volume 1. London: Academic Press, 1985. xi + 295 pp. including chapter references and index. $72.50 cloth; $41.50 paper
Aguaruna Jivaro Gardening Magic in the Alto Rio Mayo, Peru
Systeme de croyances et rituels associes a l'horticulture chez les Jivaro Aguaruna du Perou. Mode de subsistance des Aguaruna. Symbolisme spirituel du jardin. Chants consacres au jardin| pierres magiques
Illness and Healing among the Sakhalin Ainu
Poppies, Pipes, and People
The role of words in Aguaruna hunting magic
In their interpretations of magical acts and utterances, anthropologists frequently argue that magic and technology are informed by two different kinds of logic, the former "expressive" in character, the latter "instrumental." A close analysis of magical hunting songs used by the Aguaruna of Amazonian Peru reveals that the songs are part of a general ordering process that encompasses the strategic use of thoughts, speech, objects, and acts to ach…
Andean social stratification from within
Mallon, Florencia E. The Defense of Community in Peru's Central Highlands: Peasant Struggle and Capitalist Transition, 1860–1940. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1983. xiv + 384 pp. including maps, glossary, bibliography, appendices, index. $32.50 cloth, $14.50 paper
Tsewa's Gift
Power, Gender, and the Social Meaning of Aguaruna Suicide
Toward a human ecology
Etkin, Nina L., ed. Plants in Indigenous Medicine and Diet: Biobehavioral Approaches. Bedford Hills, New York: Redgrave Publishing Company, 1986. xi + 336 pp. including chapter references and index. $24.95 cloth. Wagner, H., H. Hikino, and N.R. Farnsworth, eds. Economic and Medicinal Plant Research, Volume 1. London: Academic Press, 1985. xi + 295 pp. including chapter references and index. $72.50 cloth; $41.50 paper
Shamanism and Its Discontents
Shamanistic healing is often represented in the anthropological literature as a dyadic transactional process in which the shaman helps the patient find meaning in the face of the disordering impact of an illness. A close textual analysis of a curing session among the Aguaruna Jívaro of Peru reveals that the experience created through the ritual is markedly polyphonic rather than dyadic, the clients subtly vying with the shaman to shape the sessio…
In Favor of Deceit
Malestar Del Chamanismo
En un análisis textual de una sesión de curación chamánica entre los aguaruna, el autor muestra como los clientes rivalizan con el chamán en la conformación de los contornos discursivos de la sesión, fusionando temas políticos y médicos revelando las contradicciones inherentes a un sistema de creencias en el que el chamanismo y la brujería se encuentran inseparablemente unidos. Las revelaciones del chamán sé lo trasladan el desorden del cuerpo hu…
Toward Armed Struggle
Lima is Peru's capital and is a city that defies idealism. The Lima of the early 1960s was a brighter place. Cuba proved that a Marxist revolution could take place in what was coming to be called the Third World. The principal theoretician of Cuban socialism that so enchanted the Peruvians was an Argentine physician named Che Guevara. Historical connections between Che and Peru added to the theory's mystique for Peruvian leftists. The momentum of…
Return of Lord Inca
Juan Santos proclaimed a spiritual message that in short order led Asháninkas and neighboring peoples to abandon Franciscan missions and begin active resistance to Spanish control. The fate of Milla's party set the pattern for subsequent campaigns against the new Lord Inca. The Indians had delivered the Spanish a devastating setback. The Franciscans attempted a peaceful reconquest by dispatching groups of friars to the rebel-held zone. Juan Santo…
To Fill the Granaries of Heaven
Juan Vélez guided two Jesuit priests, Juan Font and Nicolás Mastrillo, to a settlement of jungle Indians east of the highland village of Andamarca. They assured the Indians of their good intentions, until they won over their hosts with the humblest of gestures. Like most sixteenth- and seventeenth-century explorers, Font found it difficult to identify the native groups he encountered on his travels. Establishing the identity and scale of native g…
Death of a Chronicle Foretold
Luis Shintori is one of the most forceful Asháninka leaders living near Cubantía. His reputation as a leader comes in part from experience in the world outside of Asháninka communities. The authority of shamans is spiritual, but it is given shape by a network of kinsmen, friends, followers, patients, and by enemies and detractors. They are empowered by politics but also constrained by it. Asháninka narratives about messianic figures note that som…
Coda
Beyond 1965
Túpac Amaru
The guerrilla column making up the central front of the Movimiento de Izquierda Revolucionaria (MIR)'s three-front insurgency took the name Túpac Amaru after José Gabriel Condorcanqui, also known as Túpac Amaru II. The weaponry of the Túpac Amaru consisted of revolvers, shotguns, carbines, and a few light automatic rifles. The unfolding relations between the guerrillas of the Túpac Amaru and local peasant communities have inspired conflicting cla…
White Angel
As the Túpac Amaru dropped into the jungles of Satipo Province, spectral foreigners appeared on the Amazonian stage. Most press accounts and local hearsay about mysterious foreigners concentrated on the role that gringos, especially Americans, allegedly played in the conflict. The Indians of Peru's tropical forests see Europeans through the lens of their own cultural experience. Asháninkas have perhaps the most elaborate ideas about gringos of an…
Amachénga
Amachegua—more properly, amachénga or amachénka—is an Asháninka word for a class of mythical saviors. These good spirits present themselves to ordinary people as lightning bolts or as brilliantly plumed birds. Slavery was gradually replaced by less absolute but equally effective forms of exploitation. To keep their Indian laborers close to home, landowners were sometimes instrumental in helping Asháninkas secure land titles. From the 1920s onward…
The Medicine Men
War of Shadows
This is the story of a failed uprising in the Peruvian Amazon—told largely by people who were there. Late in 1965, Asháninka Indians, members of one of the Amazon's largest native tribes, joined forces with Marxist revolutionaries who had opened a guerrilla front in Asháninka territory. They fought, and were crushed by, the overwhelming military force of the Peruvian government. Why did the Indians believe this alliance would deliver them from po…
Beyond Resistance
Recent studies of millenarian movements in tribal societies have tended to interpret them as expressions of resistance to colonial or neocolonial domination. Through a comparison of five case studies of indigenous millenarianism drawn from the history of lowland South America, this essay identifies aspects of utopian renewal that reflect internal political processes and contradictions independent of, and probably predating, native encounters with…
The Ethnobotany of Chinchero, an Andean Community in Southern Peru
To Square with Genesis
To Square with Genesis: Causal Statements and Shamanic ideas in Wayãpí. ALAN TORMAID CAMPBELL. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1989. v + 198pp. Illustrated. $28.95 (cloth). ISBN 0–87745–248–2
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