Casey High
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3592444 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Casey High |
| PRENOMES | Casey |
| SOBRENOME | High |
| ASSINATURA | HIGH C |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Edinburgh |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 34 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 103 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 33 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2007 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 7 |
Forest Lost
Translating Worlds, Defending Land
In 2019, after decades of ecological damage from oil, Waorani people took to the streets of Amazonian Ecuador to protest drilling on their ancestral lands. Working with international activists, lawyers, and other Indigenous groups, they successfully sued the government for selling oil concessions without prior consent. Placing their struggle for territorial autonomy in the global spotlight, this unprecedented legal victory for environmental right…
Collaborations in an Amazonian Contemporary
The Lowland South American World
From 1880 to 1920, the economic boom produced by the extractive exploitation of wild rubber (Hevea brasiliensis) reshaped Bolivian Amazonia at multiple levels. Geographically, it drew borders that have been immovable ever since. Socially, it led to the rise and positioning of various local actors, and it involved national and European immigration. Economically, it installed the machinery of rubber extractivism. And politically, the period brought…
Reckoning Harm
Civilized Elders and Isolated Ancestors
In this article I consider the impact of Peter Gow’s writing on indigenous histories as a key area of research on Amazonia. Building on his study of kinship as history on the Bajo Urubamba (1991) he presented a regional perspective on the dynamic social categories by which Amazonian people understand their relations with various “others.” Focusing on indigenous agency and modes of thought, Gow challenged certain lines of historical thinking that …
Chapter 4 The Nature of Loss
Chapter 7 Shamans, Animals and Enemies
Chapter 4 Ignorant Bodies and the Dangers of Knowledge in Amazonia
"Our Land Is Not for Sale!" Contesting Oil and Translating Environmental Politics in Amazonian Ecuador
En abril de 2019 el pueblo Waorani en la Amazonía ecuatoriana ganó una batalla legal contra planes de vender concesiones petroleras en su territorio indígena. En este artículo analizo sus relaciones con petróleo como parte de un emergente "middle ground" politico que se caracteriza por hombres Waorani trabajando en las empresas petroleras y nuevas alianzas contra la extracción de petróleo. Muchos Waorani describen su tierra (wao öme) o territorio…
Conserving and Extracting Nature
Tanto como los pueblos de la Amazonía son conocidos en antropología por haber desafiado ideas modernistas de "la naturaleza," industrias extractivas y varios proyectos de desarrollo los colocan al frente de conflictos acerca del medio ambiente. En 1995, Conklin y Graham identificaron que estas interfazes son cada vez mas translocales, provocando a describir un emergente "middle ground" que ubica los pueblos indígenas de la Amazonía y los ambienta…
Bodies that speak
Intimate Others
This chapter explores the dynamics of kinship and marriage in Toñampari and what it means for Waorani people to live in a community that incorporates kowori people into household and village life. For many Waorani, the Quichuas are highly desired marriage partners and the primary source of shamanic curing. At the same time, they describe Quichua people as morally different from themselves, as “enemies” who invade Waorani lands and practice powerf…
Becoming Warriors
This chapter examines how Waorani youth talk about and perform past violence in ways that contradict the “victim's point of view” often expressed in stories told by elders. It considers how colonial imagination of Amazonian “warriorhood” has in certain contexts come to define Waorani relations with kowori people. The chapter also shows how the warrior performances of Waorani youth in local school events and state-sponsored folklore festivals reve…
Shamans and Enemies
This chapter examines the themes of shamanism and witchcraft in the context of Waorani–Quichua relations in Toñampari. Even as a growing number of kowori have come to live in Waorani villages, Quichua people continue to have a prominent place in local discussions of enmity and violence. This sense of alterity can be seen in Waorani ideas about shamanism, a practice that is associated closely with Quichuas. This chapter describes indigenous unders…
Afterword
This afterword discusses some of the recent events described in this book that have continued to unfold in Ecuador. The most important of these is the arrest and imprisonment of seven Waorani men involved in the latest revenge attack against the Taromenani. Just as Waorani make appeals to the Ecuadorian authorities to respect their autonomy, lawyers and other commentators call for the state to recognize the latest massacre of the Taromenani as a …
Like the Ancient Ones
This chapter examines the gendered dimensions of alterity and Waorani understandings of what it means to be “like the ancient ones” ( durani bai ). It analyzes the place of violence and memory in contemporary Waorani gender dynamics by elucidating the meanings of the expression durani bai by which young people describe their public warrior performances. Despite a strongly egalitarian ethos, the chapter shows that Waorani women and men experience …
The Chimera Principle
"A Little Bit Christian"
Conversion to Christianity in Amazonia is often described in terms of collective action rather than radically new beliefs interior to the individual. I describe how Waorani people in Ecuador remember the conversion of specific elders as a time of civilization that brought Waorani into a wider social order after a period of violence and isolation. Despite having largely abandoned Christianity since their mass conversion in the 1960s, Waorani today…
Regimes of ignorance
Introduction: Regimes of Ignorance: An Introduction Thomas G. Kirsch and Roy Dilley Chapter 1. Mind the Gap: On the Other Side of Knowing Carlo Caduff Chapter 2. Ignoring Native Ignorance: Epidemiological Enclosures of Not-Knowing Plague in Inner Asia Christos Lynteris Chapter 3. Managing Pleasurable Pursuits: Utopic Horizons and the Arts of Ignoring and 'Not Knowing' among Fine Woodworkers Trevor H. J. Marchand Chapter 4. Ignorant Bodies and the…
Victims and Warriors
"In 1956, a group of Waorani men killed five North American missionaries in Ecuador. The event cemented the Waorani's reputation as "wild Amazonian Indians" in the eyes of the outside world. It also added to the myth of the violent Amazon created by colonial writers and still found in academia and the state development agendas across the region. Victims and Warriors examines contemporary violence in the context of political and economic processes…
Keep on Changing
In this article I review several recent books to consider how anthropologists have approached questions of cosmology, history, and social transformation in Amazonia. Several of these engage a now well-established tradition in presenting indigenous ontologies as radical alternatives to Western concepts of agency and history. In contrast to the discontinuities described in the "New History" of Amazonia, anthropologists tend to approach social trans…
Eduardo Viveiros de Castro, The Inconstancy of the Indian Soul
Lost and found
In May 2003 a group of Waorani men in Amazonian Ecuador led an attack against their "uncontacted" Taromenani neighbors, resulting in a massacre that has fueled ongoing debates about the rights of indigenous people living in "voluntary isolation." In this article I consider how Waorani understandings of the attack point to indigenous formulations of alterity that challenge what Lucas Bessire (2012) has described as the contemporary politics of iso…
Introduction
It is not surprising that anthropologists, being academics, should value knowledge. After all, an academic life is a vocation to generate data, to act as a critic in order to detect and eradicate error, and to transmit the state of the art to the next generation. This pursuit of knowledge entails an ethics: knowledge is the value that justifies all aspects of academic activity, whether it is desired as a means of promoting other goods (health, ha…
Warriors, hunters, and Bruce Lee
In this article, I examine the ways in which young Waorani men in Amazonian Ecuador express specific generational forms of masculinity in reference to past violence, urban intercultural relations, and global film imagery. By drawing on Amazonian and anthropological conceptualizations of "gendered agency," I consider how emerging masculine fantasies point to young men's reduced ability to demonstrate particular forms of agency associated with male…
Remembering theauca
In Amazonian Ecuador and beyond, indigenous Waorani people have received considerable attention for their history of revenge killings during much of the twentieth century. In pointing to the heterogeneous forms of social memory assigned to specific generations, the article describes how oral histories and public performances of past violence mediate changing forms of sociality. While the victim's perspective in oral histories is fundamental to Wa…
Bodies that speak
"Our Land Is Not for Sale!" Contesting Oil and Translating Environmental Politics in Amazonian Ecuador
En abril de 2019 el pueblo Waorani en la Amazonía ecuatoriana ganó una batalla legal contra planes de vender concesiones petroleras en su territorio indígena. En este artículo analizo sus relaciones con petróleo como parte de un emergente "middle ground" politico que se caracteriza por hombres Waorani trabajando en las empresas petroleras y nuevas alianzas contra la extracción de petróleo. Muchos Waorani describen su tierra (wao öme) o territorio…
Conserving and Extracting Nature
Tanto como los pueblos de la Amazonía son conocidos en antropología por haber desafiado ideas modernistas de "la naturaleza," industrias extractivas y varios proyectos de desarrollo los colocan al frente de conflictos acerca del medio ambiente. En 1995, Conklin y Graham identificaron que estas interfazes son cada vez mas translocales, provocando a describir un emergente "middle ground" que ubica los pueblos indígenas de la Amazonía y los ambienta…
Between Friends and Enemies
This article examines the shifting nature of interethnic relations between two indigenous groups in Amazonian Ecuador, the Curaray River group of lowland Kichwa and the neighboring Waorani of the Curaray region. Waorani and Curaray Kichwa interaction from the 1930s to the present reveals a pattern marked by oscillations between hostilities and cautious friendship. These shifts are expressed in varied social relations described in the anthropologi…
Lost and found
In May 2003 a group of Waorani men in Amazonian Ecuador led an attack against their "uncontacted" Taromenani neighbors, resulting in a massacre that has fueled ongoing debates about the rights of indigenous people living in "voluntary isolation." In this article I consider how Waorani understandings of the attack point to indigenous formulations of alterity that challenge what Lucas Bessire (2012) has described as the contemporary politics of iso…
Victims and Martyrs
Since the 1950s, indigenous Waorani people of Amazonian Ecuador have had a prominent place in the evangelical imagination in the United States and Europe because of their reputation for violence. Their symbolic status as “wild” Indians in popular imagination reached its peak in 1956, when five U.S. missionaries were killed during an attempt to convert the Waorani to Christianity. With the opening of a U.S.‐produced film in January 2006 about the …
"A Little Bit Christian"
Conversion to Christianity in Amazonia is often described in terms of collective action rather than radically new beliefs interior to the individual. I describe how Waorani people in Ecuador remember the conversion of specific elders as a time of civilization that brought Waorani into a wider social order after a period of violence and isolation. Despite having largely abandoned Christianity since their mass conversion in the 1960s, Waorani today…
Agency and Anthropology
Christian moderns: Freedom and fetish in the mission encounter (Berkeley, University of California
Keep on Changing
In this article I review several recent books to consider how anthropologists have approached questions of cosmology, history, and social transformation in Amazonia. Several of these engage a now well-established tradition in presenting indigenous ontologies as radical alternatives to Western concepts of agency and history. In contrast to the discontinuities described in the "New History" of Amazonia, anthropologists tend to approach social trans…
The Chimera Principle
Seeing and being seen
Victims and Martyrs
Since the 1950s, indigenous Waorani people of Amazonian Ecuador have had a prominent place in the evangelical imagination in the United States and Europe because of their reputation for violence. Their symbolic status as “wild” Indians in popular imagination reached its peak in 1956, when five U.S. missionaries were killed during an attempt to convert the Waorani to Christianity. With the opening of a U.S.‐produced film in January 2006 about the …
Remembering theauca
In Amazonian Ecuador and beyond, indigenous Waorani people have received considerable attention for their history of revenge killings during much of the twentieth century. In pointing to the heterogeneous forms of social memory assigned to specific generations, the article describes how oral histories and public performances of past violence mediate changing forms of sociality. While the victim's perspective in oral histories is fundamental to Wa…
Agency and Anthropology
Christian moderns: Freedom and fetish in the mission encounter (Berkeley, University of California
Warriors, hunters, and Bruce Lee
In this article, I examine the ways in which young Waorani men in Amazonian Ecuador express specific generational forms of masculinity in reference to past violence, urban intercultural relations, and global film imagery. By drawing on Amazonian and anthropological conceptualizations of "gendered agency," I consider how emerging masculine fantasies point to young men's reduced ability to demonstrate particular forms of agency associated with male…
A walk to the river in Amazonia
Introduction
It is not surprising that anthropologists, being academics, should value knowledge. After all, an academic life is a vocation to generate data, to act as a critic in order to detect and eradicate error, and to transmit the state of the art to the next generation. This pursuit of knowledge entails an ethics: knowledge is the value that justifies all aspects of academic activity, whether it is desired as a means of promoting other goods (health, ha…
Between Knowing and Being
This article examines the ways in which Waorani people in Amazonian Ecuador insist on not knowing about shamanism. While shamanic practice is often understood to be a privileged site of "indigenous knowledge," I argue that Waorani shamanism is less about acquiring, using, or losing an abstract body of knowledge than it is about the kind of perspective and social effect that its practice implies. Such an approach to the cultural particularities of…
The Anthropology of Ignorance
The question of ignorance occupies a central place in anthropological theory and practice. This volume argues that the concept of ignorance has largely been pursued as the opposite of knowledge or eve
Between Friends and Enemies
This article examines the shifting nature of interethnic relations between two indigenous groups in Amazonian Ecuador, the Curaray River group of lowland Kichwa and the neighboring Waorani of the Curaray region. Waorani and Curaray Kichwa interaction from the 1930s to the present reveals a pattern marked by oscillations between hostilities and cautious friendship. These shifts are expressed in varied social relations described in the anthropologi…
Lost and found
In May 2003 a group of Waorani men in Amazonian Ecuador led an attack against their "uncontacted" Taromenani neighbors, resulting in a massacre that has fueled ongoing debates about the rights of indigenous people living in "voluntary isolation." In this article I consider how Waorani understandings of the attack point to indigenous formulations of alterity that challenge what Lucas Bessire (2012) has described as the contemporary politics of iso…
Eduardo Viveiros de Castro, The Inconstancy of the Indian Soul
Regimes of ignorance
Introduction: Regimes of Ignorance: An Introduction Thomas G. Kirsch and Roy Dilley Chapter 1. Mind the Gap: On the Other Side of Knowing Carlo Caduff Chapter 2. Ignoring Native Ignorance: Epidemiological Enclosures of Not-Knowing Plague in Inner Asia Christos Lynteris Chapter 3. Managing Pleasurable Pursuits: Utopic Horizons and the Arts of Ignoring and 'Not Knowing' among Fine Woodworkers Trevor H. J. Marchand Chapter 4. Ignorant Bodies and the…
Victims and Warriors
"In 1956, a group of Waorani men killed five North American missionaries in Ecuador. The event cemented the Waorani's reputation as "wild Amazonian Indians" in the eyes of the outside world. It also added to the myth of the violent Amazon created by colonial writers and still found in academia and the state development agendas across the region. Victims and Warriors examines contemporary violence in the context of political and economic processes…
Keep on Changing
In this article I review several recent books to consider how anthropologists have approached questions of cosmology, history, and social transformation in Amazonia. Several of these engage a now well-established tradition in presenting indigenous ontologies as radical alternatives to Western concepts of agency and history. In contrast to the discontinuities described in the "New History" of Amazonia, anthropologists tend to approach social trans…
The Chimera Principle
"A Little Bit Christian"
Conversion to Christianity in Amazonia is often described in terms of collective action rather than radically new beliefs interior to the individual. I describe how Waorani people in Ecuador remember the conversion of specific elders as a time of civilization that brought Waorani into a wider social order after a period of violence and isolation. Despite having largely abandoned Christianity since their mass conversion in the 1960s, Waorani today…
Intimate Others
This chapter explores the dynamics of kinship and marriage in Toñampari and what it means for Waorani people to live in a community that incorporates kowori people into household and village life. For many Waorani, the Quichuas are highly desired marriage partners and the primary source of shamanic curing. At the same time, they describe Quichua people as morally different from themselves, as “enemies” who invade Waorani lands and practice powerf…
Becoming Warriors
This chapter examines how Waorani youth talk about and perform past violence in ways that contradict the “victim's point of view” often expressed in stories told by elders. It considers how colonial imagination of Amazonian “warriorhood” has in certain contexts come to define Waorani relations with kowori people. The chapter also shows how the warrior performances of Waorani youth in local school events and state-sponsored folklore festivals reve…
Shamans and Enemies
This chapter examines the themes of shamanism and witchcraft in the context of Waorani–Quichua relations in Toñampari. Even as a growing number of kowori have come to live in Waorani villages, Quichua people continue to have a prominent place in local discussions of enmity and violence. This sense of alterity can be seen in Waorani ideas about shamanism, a practice that is associated closely with Quichuas. This chapter describes indigenous unders…
Afterword
This afterword discusses some of the recent events described in this book that have continued to unfold in Ecuador. The most important of these is the arrest and imprisonment of seven Waorani men involved in the latest revenge attack against the Taromenani. Just as Waorani make appeals to the Ecuadorian authorities to respect their autonomy, lawyers and other commentators call for the state to recognize the latest massacre of the Taromenani as a …
Like the Ancient Ones
This chapter examines the gendered dimensions of alterity and Waorani understandings of what it means to be “like the ancient ones” ( durani bai ). It analyzes the place of violence and memory in contemporary Waorani gender dynamics by elucidating the meanings of the expression durani bai by which young people describe their public warrior performances. Despite a strongly egalitarian ethos, the chapter shows that Waorani women and men experience …
Bodies that speak
"Our Land Is Not for Sale!" Contesting Oil and Translating Environmental Politics in Amazonian Ecuador
En abril de 2019 el pueblo Waorani en la Amazonía ecuatoriana ganó una batalla legal contra planes de vender concesiones petroleras en su territorio indígena. En este artículo analizo sus relaciones con petróleo como parte de un emergente "middle ground" politico que se caracteriza por hombres Waorani trabajando en las empresas petroleras y nuevas alianzas contra la extracción de petróleo. Muchos Waorani describen su tierra (wao öme) o territorio…
Conserving and Extracting Nature
Tanto como los pueblos de la Amazonía son conocidos en antropología por haber desafiado ideas modernistas de "la naturaleza," industrias extractivas y varios proyectos de desarrollo los colocan al frente de conflictos acerca del medio ambiente. En 1995, Conklin y Graham identificaron que estas interfazes son cada vez mas translocales, provocando a describir un emergente "middle ground" que ubica los pueblos indígenas de la Amazonía y los ambienta…
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