scholarly journals Astronomy across cultures: reporting experiences on the GalileoMobile education activities in the Paiter Suruí indigenous community

2019 ◽  
Vol 200 ◽  
pp. 02009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patrícia Figueiró Spinelli ◽  
Ana Paula Germano ◽  
Ana Paula Germano ◽  
Cristina Fernades ◽  
Sandra Benitez-Herrera ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Identity ◽  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
Formal Education ◽  
Indigenous Communities ◽  
Brazilian Amazon ◽  
Educational Material ◽  
Ethnographic Study ◽  
Science Outreach ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Modern Astronomy

This work is the report of an astronomy non-formal education expedition carried out by the GalileoMobile initiative in the Paiter Suruí indigenous communities, in the Brazilian Amazon, that took place in November 2016. This ethnic group remained “officially uncontacted” by non-natives until the late 1960's, when the population dropped significantly and they faced deep changes in their way of living and traditions. Nowadays, the Paiter Suruí are seeking ways to maintain their cultural identity and land. Thus, differently from previous GalileoMobile itinerant projects, which had the goal of bringing modern astronomy closer to youngsters of regions with scarce access to science outreach actions, this particular expedition had the goal of establishing an exchange of knowledge related to astronomy, promoting a dialogue with the members of this group to understand and record their relationship with the sky. The ground team, comprised of three astronomers, one filmmaker and one anthropologist, undertook the study of various academic works on ethno and cultural astronomy, as well as specific texts on science education in traditional communities and ethnography of Brazilian indigenous peoples. During the expedition, interviews with the Paiter Suruí elders were held, having as a starting point astronomy outreach activities such as the sky observation with telescopes. We were able to collect three myths related to the Sun, Moon and rainbow. The result of activities, interviews and transcripts were recorded in a series of videos that will be returned to the community, so that they can be used in schools and community centres as educational material for the preservation of the Paiter Suruí culture, as well as a resource for a detailed ethnographic study of their astronomy.

scholarly journals Local-Indigenous Autonomy and Community Streetscape Enhancement: Learnings from Māori and Te Ara Mua—Future Streets Project

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
pp. 865
Author(s):  
Kimiora Raerino ◽  
Alex Macmillan ◽  
Adrian Field ◽  
Rau Hoskins
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Identity ◽  
Urban Design ◽  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
Indigenous Communities ◽  
Collective Agency ◽  
Research Approach ◽  
Indigenous Autonomy ◽  
Spatial Justice ◽  
Aotearoa New Zealand ◽  
Kaupapa Māori

In settler countries, attention is now extending to the wellbeing benefits of recognising and promoting the Indigenous cultural identity of neighbourhoods as a contributing factor to more equitable and healthier communities. Re-indigenisation efforts to (re)implement cultural factors into urban design can be challenging and ineffective without the leadership and collaboration of local-Indigenous peoples. Undertaken in Aotearoa New Zealand, Te Ara Mua — Future Street project, demonstrated that co-design has critical potential in the reclamation of Indigenous autonomy, increased local-Indigenous presence and revitalisation of cultural identity. Employing a Kaupapa Māori (Māori-centred) research approach, we focused on the workings and perspectives of mana whenua (local-Indigenous peoples) and community stakeholder engagement in Te Ara Mua. An Indigenous theoretical framework, Te Pae Mahutonga, was utilised in the data analysis to explore perspectives of Indigenous collective agency, empowerment, and wellbeing. Our research demonstrates that developing capacity amongst Indigenous communities is integral for effective engagement and that the realisation of autonomy in urban design projects has broader implications for Indigenous sovereignty, spatial justice and health equity. Significantly, we argue that future community enhancement strategies must include not only re-designing and re-imagining initiatives, but also re-indigenising.

Case Comment: Do Indigenous Peoples Have a Right to Limit Religious Proselytism Activities in Their Territories?

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-9
Author(s):  
Trilce Gabriela Valdivia Aguilar
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Identity ◽  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
Indigenous Communities ◽  
Constitutional Court ◽  
Spiritual Renewal ◽  
Freedom Of Conscience ◽  
The Right

Abstract In ruling T-1022/01, the Colombian Constitutional Court responded to a claim brought by a member of the United Pentecostal Church of Colombia against the Yanacona Indigenous Council. The claimants alleged the violation of their rights to freedom of conscience, worship, and dissemination of thought based on two facts: (a) the refusal of their petition to carry out a “Spiritual Renewal Day” in the main square of the indigenous reservation of Caquiona, and (b) the interruption of the religious gatherings of the United Pentecostal Church of Colombia, as well as the prohibition of their pastors entering the indigenous reservation territory. The Court found no violation of the rights alleged. The purpose of this comment is to explore the understanding by the Colombian Constitutional Court of the right to cultural identity of indigenous communities, focusing particularly on whether it encompasses the right to be free from religious proselytism.

scholarly journals Innovation and Healing in Contemporary Yup’ik Mask Making

2020 ◽  
Vol 62 (2) ◽  
pp. 365-379 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna Mossolova
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Identity ◽  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
Ethnographic Study ◽  
Traditional Media ◽  
Individual Interviews ◽  
Mask Making ◽  
Art Forms ◽  
Different Ages

This ethnographic study, conducted with seven contemporary Yup’ik carvers examines one of the oldest, but long suppressed, art forms in southwest Alaska – mask making. In-depth individual interviews captured the voices of artists of different ages, backgrounds and experiences, who, as they branch out and push the boundaries of traditional media, keep re-exploring and forging their cultural identity by bringing the forgotten symbols, values and worldviews associated with masks back to life. This article demonstrates how innovation unfolds the healing potential of masks and can help individuals and communities recuperate from a colonial past, and assert positive self-identification as Alaska Indigenous peoples today.

scholarly journals LOS DERECHOS A UN AMBIENTE SANO, A LA ALIMENTACIÓN ADECUADA, AL AGUA Y A LA IDENTIDAD CULTURAL. CASO COMUNIDADES INDÍGENAS MIEMBROS DE LA ASOCIACIÓN LHAKA HONHAT (NUESTRA TIERRA) VS. ARGENTINA ANTE LA CIDH.

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 330-355
Author(s):  
Fanny Verónica Mora Navarro
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Identity ◽  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
Indigenous Communities ◽  
Final Decision ◽  
Political Rights ◽  
Cultural Rights ◽  
Healthy Environment ◽  
Adequate Food ◽  
Identidad Cultural ◽  
The Right

The case Lhaka Honhat (Our Land) is the first in the IACHR related with the claim of the indigenous communities in Argentina. The final decision of the case was stated the 6th of February 2020. The IACHR considered that the State is responsible for the violation of the right of participate in a cultural life, contained in the cultural identity, to a healthy environment, appropriate nutrition and water, stated in the article 26 of the American Convention on Human Rights. This is the first precedent regarding social rights and indigenous peoples. The investigation will address: the importance and progress of the resolutions of the IACHR, related with indigenous peoples; the main judgments that support the differentiated analysis of civil and political rights regarding economic, social and cultural rights; and the rights to a healthy environment, to adequate food, to water and to cultural identity and peculiarities in relation to indigenous peoples

scholarly journals Through a Critical Lens: Expertise in Epidemiology for and by Indigenous Peoples

2019 ◽  
Vol 45 (6) ◽  
pp. 1142-1167
Author(s):  
Erica Prussing
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Public Policy ◽  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
Science And Technology Studies ◽  
Indigenous Health ◽  
Indigenous Communities ◽  
Public Health Research ◽  
Ethnographic Study ◽  
Social Worlds ◽  
Aotearoa New Zealand

Epidemiology for and by Indigenous peoples uses quantitative and statistical methods to better document Indigenous health concerns, and is oriented around providing data for use in advocacy to promote Indigenous health equity. This advocacy-oriented, technoscientific work bridges the often distinct social worlds of Indigenous communities, professional public health research, and public policy-making. Using examples from a multisited ethnographic study in three settings (Aotearoa New Zealand, Hawai’i, and the continental United States), this paper examines the forms of expertise that researcher/practitioners enact as they conduct research that simultaneously harnesses epidemiology’s persuasive power in social worlds like public health and public policy, while also critically challenging legacies of colonialist erasures and misrepresentations of Indigenous health in population statistics. By demonstrating how these continual translations across multiple social worlds enact expertise, this analysis offers a new integration of discussions about both coloniality and expertise within science and technology studies (STS). By focusing on the experiences of technoscientific professionals themselves, this study’s findings also pose new questions for broader STS conversations about how activism is shaping the production of knowledge about health in the twenty-first century.

Qualitative Research in Indigenous Education in Mexico

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gabriela Czarny ◽  
Ruth Paradise
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
Indigenous Education ◽  
Indigenous Communities ◽  
Ethnographic Study ◽  
Central Position ◽  
National Tradition ◽  
Continuous State ◽  
Indigenous Organizations

In Mexico, qualitative research in the field of indigenous education finds its roots in a strong national tradition of social anthropological research. This background provides a fundamental context for understanding current emphases in qualitative educational research being carried out in indigenous communities, and for recognizing the underlying nature of indigenist policies and schooling projects (known as “indigenism”) imposed by the state during the 20th century. Indigenous organizations and communities have both challenged and appropriated this research tradition and indigenist educational projects, bringing into play a discussion of the continuous state of inequality and injustice in postcolonial states. Among the central aspects that have contributed to the shift in native research processes are the professionalization of the field of study at the level of higher education and within different programs and institutions, although the majority of these programs are still oriented toward indigenous peoples by nonindigenous professionals. Within the qualitative research agenda proposed by native researchers at the end of the 20th century, indigenous peoples began to assume a central position in the suggested themes, needs, and methods of inquiry. In Mexico, this development was closely related to the ethnographic study of education through perspectives of research action, collaborative research, narratives, and testimonials, providing fertile ground for envisioning other ways to name, produce knowledge, describe problems, and propose solutions with respect to the lives of these communities and peoples.

scholarly journals Seren taun Sebagai Medium Komunikasi Adat

2017 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Abdul Malik
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Identity ◽  
Intercultural Communication ◽  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
Indigenous Communities ◽  
Symbolic Form ◽  
Communication Medium ◽  
The Earth ◽  
Intracultural Communication

Seren taun is a traditional ceremony performed by Kasepuhan Cisungsang, Banten Kidul, as a vehicle to give thanks to God Almighty for their harvest. In the perspective of intracultural communication. Seren taun is an indigenous communication medium that serves to transform the values of adat from one generation to the next for the preservation of their cultural identity. Therefore, every ceremony of ceremonial seren taun must be attended and followed by all members of indigenous communities without exception, either living in custom territory or outside customary territory. Meanwhile, in the perspective of intercultural communication, seren epidemic ceremony becomes a medium for the existence of adat, so that its existence is accepted, acknowledged, and protected by the state.This study focuses on understanding: First, how the kasepuhan community makes seren taun as a medium of communal communication in order to reinforce their cultural identity. Second, how the society kasepuhan make seren epidemic as a medium of communication for the sake of existence. Based on these two questions, it is understood that seren taun has expanded its function. As a form of respect for the earth (land) and thankfulness of the harvest, as well as the symbolic form of existence of society. The existence of expansion of function in seren taun, based on awareness affirming identity as indigenous peoples with all its distinctive style and culture, which is not owned by other society entity, as well as contestation of their cultural identity to other party for the sake of existence of adat. Keywords: Seren Taun, Kasepuhan Cisungsang, Cultural Identity, Customary Existence 

INTEGRATED METHODOLOGY FOR TAKING INTO ACCOUNT THE VIEWS AND OPINONSOF INDIGENOUS PEOPLES IN THEIR INTERACTION WITH PUBLIC AUTHORITIES (ON THE EXAMPLE OF THE YAMAL-NENETS AUTONOMOUS DISTRICT)

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 124-147
Author(s):  
Elena F. GLADUN ◽  
Gennady F. DETTER ◽  
Olga V. ZAKHAROVA ◽  
Sergei M. ZUEV ◽  
Lyubov G. VOZELOVA
Keyword(s):  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
Citizen Participation ◽  
Indigenous Communities ◽  
The Arctic ◽  
Legal Issue ◽  
Public Authorities ◽  
Autonomous District ◽  
Integrated Methodology ◽  
The World ◽  
Nenets Autonomous

Developing democracy institutions and citizen participation in state affairs, the world community focuses on postcolonial studies, which allow us to identify new perspectives, set new priorities in various areas, in law and public administration among others. In Arctic countries, postcolonial discourse has an impact on the methodology of research related to indigenous issues, and this makes possible to understand specific picture of the world and ideas about what is happening in the world. Moreover, the traditions of Russian state and governance are specific and interaction between indigenous peoples and public authorities should be studied with a special research methodology which would reflect the peculiarities of domestic public law and aimed at solving legal issue and enrich public policy. The objective of the paper is to present a new integrated methodology that includes a system of philosophical, anthropological, socio-psychological methods, as well as methods of comparative analysis and scenario development methods to involve peripheral communities into decision-making process of planning the socio-economic development in one of Russia’s Arctic regions — the Yamal-Nenets Autonomous District and to justify and further legislatively consolidate the optimal forms of interaction between public authorities and indigenous communities of the North. In 2020, the Arctic Research Center conducted a sociological survey in the Shuryshkararea of the Yamal-Nenets Autonomous District, which seems to limit existing approaches to identifying public opinion about prospects for developing villages and organizing life of their residents. Our proposed methodology for taking into account the views of indigenous peoples can help to overcome the identified limitations.

THE THE INDIGENOUS IDENTITY INTERPRETED AS A CATEGORY OF ANALYSIS IN POPULATION STUDIES

2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (Especial) ◽  
pp. 105
Author(s):  
Dante Choque-Caseres
Keyword(s):  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
Methodological Approach ◽  
Indigenous Communities ◽  
Social Contexts ◽  
Indigenous Identity ◽  
Critical Thought ◽  
Northern Border ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Government ◽  
New Research

In Latin America, based on the recognition of Indigenous Peoples, the identification of gaps or disparities between the Indigenous and non-Indigenous population has emerged as a new research interest. To this end, capturing Indigenous identity is key to conducting certain analyses. However, the social contexts where the identity of Indigenous persons are (re)produced has been significantly altered. These changes are generated by the assimilation or integration of Indigenous communities into dominant national cultures. Within this context, limitations emerge in the use of this category, since Indigenous identity has a political and legal component related to the needs of the government. Therefore, critical thought on the use of Indigenous identity is necessary in an epistemological and methodological approach to research. This article argues that research about Indigenous Peoples should evaluate how Indigenous identity is included, for it is socially co-produced through the interaction of the State and its institutions. Thus, it would not necessarily constitute an explicative variable. By analyzing the discourse about Aymara Indigenous communities that has emerged in the northern border of Chile, this paper seeks to expose the logic used to define identity. Therefore, I conclude that the process of self-identification arises in supposed Indigenous people, built and/or reinforced by institutions, which should be reviewed from a decolonizing perspective and included in comparative research.

scholarly journals Eye care delivery models to improve access to eye care for Indigenous peoples in high-income countries: a scoping review

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. e004484
Author(s):  
Helen Burn ◽  
Lisa Hamm ◽  
Joanna Black ◽  
Anthea Burnett ◽  
Matire Harwood ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Diabetic Retinopathy ◽  
Service Delivery ◽  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
Indigenous Communities ◽  
High Income ◽  
Eye Care ◽  
Service Delivery Models ◽  
Care Services ◽  
Delivery Models ◽  
Improve Access

PurposeGlobally, there are ~370 million Indigenous peoples. Indigenous peoples typically experience worse health compared with non-Indigenous people, including higher rates of avoidable vision impairment. Much of this gap in eye health can be attributed to barriers that impede access to eye care services. We conducted a scoping review to identify and summarise service delivery models designed to improve access to eye care for Indigenous peoples in high-income countries.MethodsSearches were conducted on MEDLINE, Embase and Global Health in January 2019 and updated in July 2020. All study designs were eligible if they described a model of eye care service delivery aimed at populations with over 50% Indigenous peoples. Two reviewers independently screened titles, abstracts and full-text articles and completed data charting. We extracted data on publication details, study context, service delivery interventions, outcomes and evaluations, engagement with Indigenous peoples and access dimensions targeted. We summarised findings descriptively following thematic analysis.ResultsWe screened 2604 abstracts and 67 studies fulfilled our eligibility criteria. Studies were focused on Indigenous peoples in Australia (n=45), USA (n=11), Canada (n=7), New Zealand (n=2), Taiwan (n=1) and Greenland (n=1). The main disease focus was diabetic retinopathy (n=30, 45%), followed by ‘all eye care’ (n=16, 24%). Most studies focused on targeted interventions to increase availability of services. Fewer than one-third of studies reported involving Indigenous communities when designing the service. 41 studies reflected on whether the model improved access, but none undertook rigorous evaluation or quantitative assessment.ConclusionsThe geographical and clinical scope of service delivery models to improve access to eye care for Indigenous peoples in high-income countries is narrow, with most studies focused on Australia and services for diabetic retinopathy. More and better engagement with Indigenous communities is required to design and implement accessible eye care services.

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