Reply

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.4000/aa.10529

Keywords:

higher education, indigenous students, ecumenical anthropology, reply

Abstract

This is probably the first academic debate between interethnic anthropologists about the possible transformations of our discipline triggered by the arrival of indigenous practitioners. After glancing at texts written by indigenous people in other countries, I have not found anything similar, only the recurring – and perfectly understandable – issue of western colonization and its effects on indigenous peoples around the world. Native anthropologists from the United States, Canada, and elsewhere in the Americas expose their difficulties as native professionals in the academic milieu, but do not try to change the discipline. Important works, such as those by Linda Tuhiwai Smith (Maori, New Zealand), Margaret Kovach (First Nations, Canada), Shawn Wison (Cree, Canada), Gregory Cajete (Tewa, United States), and Devon Mihesuah (Choctaw, United States), among many others, focus on developing indigenous research methods. Important contributions as these are to improve knowledge in the academy, their goal is to devise scientific procedures apart from Western canons. In turn, we try to go a little farther. We bring up indigenous procedures to produce and acquire knowledge as an attempt to change certain traditional academic habits, particularly in anthropology.

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Author Biography

Alcida Rita Ramos, Universidade de Brasília

Professor Emerita at the University of Brasília and Senior Researcher of the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq, Portuguese: Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico). She carried out prolonged research among the Sanumá, a Yanomami subgroup, the Project “Comparative Indigenism” focusing on Brazil, Argentina, and Colombia, and, at present, the Project “Indigenous Realidades Indígenas, White Utopias”. She has accompanied the trajectory of indigenous intellectuals, especially in Brazil. Besides many articles, she published the booklet Sociedades Indígenas (Ática, 1988), the books Sanumá Memories: An Ethnography in Times of Crisis (1995) and Indigenism: Ethnic Politics in Brazil (1998), both by the University of Wisconsin Press, and edited the volumes Hierarquia e Simbiose: Relações Intertribais no Brasil (Hucitec, 1980), and Constituições Nacionais e Povos Indígenas (Federal University of Minas Gerais Press, 2012) with a Spanish edition (Cauca University Press 2014).

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Published

2023-04-28

How to Cite

Ramos, Alcida Rita. 2023. “Reply”. Anuário Antropológico 48 (1):90-96. https://doi.org/10.4000/aa.10529.