Laura Mentore
Biographic Data
| ID | 99789 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Laura Mentore |
| GIVEN NAMES | Laura |
| FAMILY NAME | Mentore |
| SIGNATURE | MENTORE L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Mary Washington |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 36 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Forever Working on the Whiteman
Este artículo presenta un estudio de caso de término medio entre una comunidad indígena en el sur de Guyana y un grupo de mineros itinerantes de Brasil cuyo jefe era percibido como un hombre blanco. Un elemento central para la aparición de este término medio fue el sentido de agencia creativa de cada parte en relación con la otra, su vulnerabilidad mutua en relación con factores circunstanciales más grandes y su malentendido mutuo de los motivos …
The virtualism of "capacity building" workshops in indigenous Amazonia
Sustainable development and conservation NGOs in Amazonia often hold workshops in which they task indigenous communities with various activities in the name of "capacity building." People tend to perform these tasks despite often finding them to be flawed, demeaning, or based on erroneous assumptions about their lifeways and perspectives. Workshop organizers, for their part, tend to view local participation in itself as a straightforward indicato…
The Intersubjective Life of Cassava among the Waiwai
Most accounts of cassava cultivation in Amazonia interpret the indigenous assertion that "plants are persons" at a purely symbolic or metaphoric level. On the basis of my fieldwork with the Waiwai of Southern Guyana, this article offers an alternative interpretation, namely that Waiwai womanhood and cassava can be seen as fractal images and divergent embodied forms of a common intersubjective being, one that is holistically represented in the myt…
Waiwai fractality and the arboreal bias of PES schemes in Guyana
This paper concerns the often-assumed universal translatability of the environment as it exists in conservation discourses and policies in Amazonia. It focuses on Guyana's Low Carbon Development Strategy (LCDS), a government-led strategy to achieve socioeconomic development goals through foreign capital investment and trading in rights over "eco-services" provided by the country's forests. Guyana's indigenous peoples have been identified as one o…
Flow and Fixity
The Intersubjective Life of Cassava among the Waiwai
Most accounts of cassava cultivation in Amazonia interpret the indigenous assertion that "plants are persons" at a purely symbolic or metaphoric level. On the basis of my fieldwork with the Waiwai of Southern Guyana, this article offers an alternative interpretation, namely that Waiwai womanhood and cassava can be seen as fractal images and divergent embodied forms of a common intersubjective being, one that is holistically represented in the myt…
The virtualism of "capacity building" workshops in indigenous Amazonia
Sustainable development and conservation NGOs in Amazonia often hold workshops in which they task indigenous communities with various activities in the name of "capacity building." People tend to perform these tasks despite often finding them to be flawed, demeaning, or based on erroneous assumptions about their lifeways and perspectives. Workshop organizers, for their part, tend to view local participation in itself as a straightforward indicato…
Waiwai fractality and the arboreal bias of PES schemes in Guyana
This paper concerns the often-assumed universal translatability of the environment as it exists in conservation discourses and policies in Amazonia. It focuses on Guyana's Low Carbon Development Strategy (LCDS), a government-led strategy to achieve socioeconomic development goals through foreign capital investment and trading in rights over "eco-services" provided by the country's forests. Guyana's indigenous peoples have been identified as one o…
Forever Working on the Whiteman
Este artículo presenta un estudio de caso de término medio entre una comunidad indígena en el sur de Guyana y un grupo de mineros itinerantes de Brasil cuyo jefe era percibido como un hombre blanco. Un elemento central para la aparición de este término medio fue el sentido de agencia creativa de cada parte en relación con la otra, su vulnerabilidad mutua en relación con factores circunstanciales más grandes y su malentendido mutuo de los motivos …
Flow and Fixity
Waiwai fractality and the arboreal bias of PES schemes in Guyana
This paper concerns the often-assumed universal translatability of the environment as it exists in conservation discourses and policies in Amazonia. It focuses on Guyana's Low Carbon Development Strategy (LCDS), a government-led strategy to achieve socioeconomic development goals through foreign capital investment and trading in rights over "eco-services" provided by the country's forests. Guyana's indigenous peoples have been identified as one o…
The Intersubjective Life of Cassava among the Waiwai
Most accounts of cassava cultivation in Amazonia interpret the indigenous assertion that "plants are persons" at a purely symbolic or metaphoric level. On the basis of my fieldwork with the Waiwai of Southern Guyana, this article offers an alternative interpretation, namely that Waiwai womanhood and cassava can be seen as fractal images and divergent embodied forms of a common intersubjective being, one that is holistically represented in the myt…
The virtualism of "capacity building" workshops in indigenous Amazonia
Sustainable development and conservation NGOs in Amazonia often hold workshops in which they task indigenous communities with various activities in the name of "capacity building." People tend to perform these tasks despite often finding them to be flawed, demeaning, or based on erroneous assumptions about their lifeways and perspectives. Workshop organizers, for their part, tend to view local participation in itself as a straightforward indicato…
Forever Working on the Whiteman
Este artículo presenta un estudio de caso de término medio entre una comunidad indígena en el sur de Guyana y un grupo de mineros itinerantes de Brasil cuyo jefe era percibido como un hombre blanco. Un elemento central para la aparición de este término medio fue el sentido de agencia creativa de cada parte en relación con la otra, su vulnerabilidad mutua en relación con factores circunstanciales más grandes y su malentendido mutuo de los motivos …
Anthropological Studies and Insights (5 works) · Ecology (4 works) · Amazon rainforest (3 works) · Ecology (3 works) · Geography (3 works) · Indigenous (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Anthropology (2 works)