Jérôme Lewis
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3601331 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Jérôme Lewis |
| PRENOMES | Jérôme |
| SOBRENOME | Lewis |
| ASSINATURA | LEWIS J |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University College London |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 19 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 185 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 17 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 2 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1999 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2023 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
James Woodburn (1934-2022)
Soundscapes of infant care and infant-directed communication in two hunter-gatherer societies
This study contributes an ethnographic perspective to the study of infant-directed (ID) communicative activities. We compare soundscapes of infant care and ID vocal communication in two egalitarian, forest-dwelling, mobile hunter-gatherer groups: Mbendjele BaYaka/Aka in Northern Congo-Brazzaville and the Maniq of Southern Thailand. Across the unique patterns of speech and song specific to these different cultures, common threads emerged in infant…
L’éducation des BaYaka
La scolarisation fait partie d’un effort global visant à aider les peuples autochtones à s’adapter aux changements rapides de leur monde social et écologique et à affirmer leurs droits. La question de savoir si la scolarisation répond à ces objectifs fait l’objet d’un débat permanent parmi les anthropologues et les chercheurs en sciences de l’éducation. Nous examinons dans cet article les avantages et les inconvénients de la pédagogie ORA (Observ…
BaYaka education
Schooling is part of a global effort to help Indigenous peoples adapt to their changing social and ecological worlds and assert their human rights. There is ongoing discussion among anthropologists and educational researchers as to whether schooling meets these goals. Here, we examine the harms and benefits of ORA (Observer, Réflechir, Agir), a school system developed to educate BaYaka children from the northern Republic of the Congo. Many BaYaka…
Obituary of James Woodburn 1934-2022
Woodburn's last research visit to Hadza country was in 2017.Few anthropologists have maintained active research with the same group for 59 years.In 1958, as a young Cambridge anthropologist, James arrived in Hadza country with no idea where the people were nor what language they spoke.Meeting two Italian brothers seeking to earn enough money by hunting elephants for passage to America, James soon met the Hadza when they saw the vultures flying ov…
Keynotes and a debate
Introduction
There are many competing definitions of sustainability, but most of them stem from the long Euro-American tradition of managing natural resources. Anthropology can offer an alternative view of sustainability, starting from the recognition that a view of sustainability based on the objectification of nature is grounded in the very same ontology that has allowed the global ecological crisis that crowns the new epoch in which we now live: the Anthro…
The Anthropology of Sustainability
The Anthropology of Sustainability
This book compiles research from leading experts in the social, behavioral, and cultural dimensions of sustainability, as well as local and global understandings of the concept, and on lived practices around the world. It contains studies focusing on ways of living, acting, and thinking which claim to favor the local and global ecological systems of which we are a part, and on which we depend for survival. The concept of sustainability as a produ…
Wild Voices
Why is it that, out of 220 primate species, we are the only one that talks? The relative inflexibility of primate vocal signaling reflects audience pressure for reliability. Where interests conflict, listeners' resistance to being deceived drives signalers to limit their vocal repertoire to signals that cannot be faked. This constraint was lifted in the human case, we argue, because the original victims of our species' first deceptive vocalizatio…
Our life has turned upside down! And nobody cares
Many hunter-gatherers today find themselves caught between the dominance of neoliberal perspectives on development and progress that focus on extractive opportunities for supplying markets with natural resources, and on conservationists’ views of landscapes as wildernesses that require protection from any human activity, apart from their own. This dual occupation of hunter-gatherer land in the Congo Basin is putting huge pressure on the BaYaka Py…
Where goods are free but knowledge costs
Forest hunter-gatherers in Western Central Africa participate in an unusual economic system that transacts material production in a very different way to intellectual production. While material goods, such as food, tools or clothing, are generally freely given when demanded, intellectual goods, such as the right to perform specific rituals or to receive certain remedies, are exchanged for goods and money. These hunter-gatherer groups trade certai…
The Social Origins of Language
Whereas Noam Chomsky views language as an internal faculty fitted to the requirements of private thought, this volume views it as designed essentially for communication between two or more speakers. In language, we formulate our thoughts for others and hence for ourselves. The system, in its diverse forms, resides and develops at the level of the community, and is acquired by individuals as part of their socialization. Focusing on language in its…
Social Origins of Language
Ekila
Mbendjele forest hunter-gatherers in northern Congo refer to a confusing body of seemingly unconnected and diverse practices and beliefs as 'ekila'. Ethnographically, ekila has many meanings. I suggest a number of possible ways to understand what connects these different practices, but argue that it is only when considering learning in this egalitarian environment that ekila really begins to make sense. The ethnography demonstrates how formulaic …
News Enabling forest people to map their resources & monitor illegal logging in Cameroon
The forests of Cameroon are subject to extensive illegal logging. This includes incursions by timber pirates onto community forest land where they destroy vital resources for local people. Until now local communities, who depend on many of the key species felled by these illegal loggers for fruit, caterpillars, medicines and oil, have had no possibility to address this serious threat to their future. An innovatory new project is developing tools …
Indigenous peoples' rights and the politics of the term 'indigenous
This article forms part of an ongoing debate on rights and the use of the term 'indigenous', which has so far included exchanges in Current Anthropology, the New Humanist, and ANTHROPOLOGY TODAY, as indicated in the bibliography. The authors here respond specifically to an article by Adam Kuper, published in Current Anthropology and the New Humanist. Professor Kuper has been invited to respond and has indicated his intention to do so in the forth…
On the Return of the Native
Music and Rituals
Indigenous peoples' rights and the politics of the term 'indigenous
This article forms part of an ongoing debate on rights and the use of the term 'indigenous', which has so far included exchanges in Current Anthropology, the New Humanist, and ANTHROPOLOGY TODAY, as indicated in the bibliography. The authors here respond specifically to an article by Adam Kuper, published in Current Anthropology and the New Humanist. Professor Kuper has been invited to respond and has indicated his intention to do so in the forth…
Ekila
Mbendjele forest hunter-gatherers in northern Congo refer to a confusing body of seemingly unconnected and diverse practices and beliefs as 'ekila'. Ethnographically, ekila has many meanings. I suggest a number of possible ways to understand what connects these different practices, but argue that it is only when considering learning in this egalitarian environment that ekila really begins to make sense. The ethnography demonstrates how formulaic …
The Anthropology of Sustainability
This book compiles research from leading experts in the social, behavioral, and cultural dimensions of sustainability, as well as local and global understandings of the concept, and on lived practices around the world. It contains studies focusing on ways of living, acting, and thinking which claim to favor the local and global ecological systems of which we are a part, and on which we depend for survival. The concept of sustainability as a produ…
On the Return of the Native
Where goods are free but knowledge costs
Forest hunter-gatherers in Western Central Africa participate in an unusual economic system that transacts material production in a very different way to intellectual production. While material goods, such as food, tools or clothing, are generally freely given when demanded, intellectual goods, such as the right to perform specific rituals or to receive certain remedies, are exchanged for goods and money. These hunter-gatherer groups trade certai…
Wild Voices
Why is it that, out of 220 primate species, we are the only one that talks? The relative inflexibility of primate vocal signaling reflects audience pressure for reliability. Where interests conflict, listeners' resistance to being deceived drives signalers to limit their vocal repertoire to signals that cannot be faked. This constraint was lifted in the human case, we argue, because the original victims of our species' first deceptive vocalizatio…
Our life has turned upside down! And nobody cares
Many hunter-gatherers today find themselves caught between the dominance of neoliberal perspectives on development and progress that focus on extractive opportunities for supplying markets with natural resources, and on conservationists’ views of landscapes as wildernesses that require protection from any human activity, apart from their own. This dual occupation of hunter-gatherer land in the Congo Basin is putting huge pressure on the BaYaka Py…
Soundscapes of infant care and infant-directed communication in two hunter-gatherer societies
This study contributes an ethnographic perspective to the study of infant-directed (ID) communicative activities. We compare soundscapes of infant care and ID vocal communication in two egalitarian, forest-dwelling, mobile hunter-gatherer groups: Mbendjele BaYaka/Aka in Northern Congo-Brazzaville and the Maniq of Southern Thailand. Across the unique patterns of speech and song specific to these different cultures, common threads emerged in infant…
Music and Rituals
Music and Rituals
Indigenous peoples' rights and the politics of the term 'indigenous
This article forms part of an ongoing debate on rights and the use of the term 'indigenous', which has so far included exchanges in Current Anthropology, the New Humanist, and ANTHROPOLOGY TODAY, as indicated in the bibliography. The authors here respond specifically to an article by Adam Kuper, published in Current Anthropology and the New Humanist. Professor Kuper has been invited to respond and has indicated his intention to do so in the forth…
On the Return of the Native
News Enabling forest people to map their resources & monitor illegal logging in Cameroon
The forests of Cameroon are subject to extensive illegal logging. This includes incursions by timber pirates onto community forest land where they destroy vital resources for local people. Until now local communities, who depend on many of the key species felled by these illegal loggers for fruit, caterpillars, medicines and oil, have had no possibility to address this serious threat to their future. An innovatory new project is developing tools …
Ekila
Mbendjele forest hunter-gatherers in northern Congo refer to a confusing body of seemingly unconnected and diverse practices and beliefs as 'ekila'. Ethnographically, ekila has many meanings. I suggest a number of possible ways to understand what connects these different practices, but argue that it is only when considering learning in this egalitarian environment that ekila really begins to make sense. The ethnography demonstrates how formulaic …
The Social Origins of Language
Whereas Noam Chomsky views language as an internal faculty fitted to the requirements of private thought, this volume views it as designed essentially for communication between two or more speakers. In language, we formulate our thoughts for others and hence for ourselves. The system, in its diverse forms, resides and develops at the level of the community, and is acquired by individuals as part of their socialization. Focusing on language in its…
Social Origins of Language
Where goods are free but knowledge costs
Forest hunter-gatherers in Western Central Africa participate in an unusual economic system that transacts material production in a very different way to intellectual production. While material goods, such as food, tools or clothing, are generally freely given when demanded, intellectual goods, such as the right to perform specific rituals or to receive certain remedies, are exchanged for goods and money. These hunter-gatherer groups trade certai…
Our life has turned upside down! And nobody cares
Many hunter-gatherers today find themselves caught between the dominance of neoliberal perspectives on development and progress that focus on extractive opportunities for supplying markets with natural resources, and on conservationists’ views of landscapes as wildernesses that require protection from any human activity, apart from their own. This dual occupation of hunter-gatherer land in the Congo Basin is putting huge pressure on the BaYaka Py…
Introduction
There are many competing definitions of sustainability, but most of them stem from the long Euro-American tradition of managing natural resources. Anthropology can offer an alternative view of sustainability, starting from the recognition that a view of sustainability based on the objectification of nature is grounded in the very same ontology that has allowed the global ecological crisis that crowns the new epoch in which we now live: the Anthro…
The Anthropology of Sustainability
The Anthropology of Sustainability
This book compiles research from leading experts in the social, behavioral, and cultural dimensions of sustainability, as well as local and global understandings of the concept, and on lived practices around the world. It contains studies focusing on ways of living, acting, and thinking which claim to favor the local and global ecological systems of which we are a part, and on which we depend for survival. The concept of sustainability as a produ…
Wild Voices
Why is it that, out of 220 primate species, we are the only one that talks? The relative inflexibility of primate vocal signaling reflects audience pressure for reliability. Where interests conflict, listeners' resistance to being deceived drives signalers to limit their vocal repertoire to signals that cannot be faked. This constraint was lifted in the human case, we argue, because the original victims of our species' first deceptive vocalizatio…
Keynotes and a debate
L’éducation des BaYaka
La scolarisation fait partie d’un effort global visant à aider les peuples autochtones à s’adapter aux changements rapides de leur monde social et écologique et à affirmer leurs droits. La question de savoir si la scolarisation répond à ces objectifs fait l’objet d’un débat permanent parmi les anthropologues et les chercheurs en sciences de l’éducation. Nous examinons dans cet article les avantages et les inconvénients de la pédagogie ORA (Observ…
BaYaka education
Schooling is part of a global effort to help Indigenous peoples adapt to their changing social and ecological worlds and assert their human rights. There is ongoing discussion among anthropologists and educational researchers as to whether schooling meets these goals. Here, we examine the harms and benefits of ORA (Observer, Réflechir, Agir), a school system developed to educate BaYaka children from the northern Republic of the Congo. Many BaYaka…
Obituary of James Woodburn 1934-2022
Woodburn's last research visit to Hadza country was in 2017.Few anthropologists have maintained active research with the same group for 59 years.In 1958, as a young Cambridge anthropologist, James arrived in Hadza country with no idea where the people were nor what language they spoke.Meeting two Italian brothers seeking to earn enough money by hunting elephants for passage to America, James soon met the Hadza when they saw the vultures flying ov…
Soundscapes of infant care and infant-directed communication in two hunter-gatherer societies
This study contributes an ethnographic perspective to the study of infant-directed (ID) communicative activities. We compare soundscapes of infant care and ID vocal communication in two egalitarian, forest-dwelling, mobile hunter-gatherer groups: Mbendjele BaYaka/Aka in Northern Congo-Brazzaville and the Maniq of Southern Thailand. Across the unique patterns of speech and song specific to these different cultures, common threads emerged in infant…
James Woodburn (1934-2022)
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