Chapter 4: Indigenous Cultures Flashcards
Who are the Sentinelse?
- Population of 100 indigenous people
- North Sentinel Island
- Occupied for 30,000 years
- Killed John Allen Chau with arrows; he was there to convert its residents to Christianity
- Modern world wants to assimilate them
what is first contact
encounters with members of indigenous societies who have not been previously exposed to the industrialized world
How many Indigenous people are there in the world?
- 370-500million
- 5% of the population
What percentage of the worlds poor and critically poor do Indigenous people make up?
- 15% of the world’s poor
- 33% of the world’s critically poor
What percentage of Earth’s imperiled biodiversity inhabit Indigenous land?
80%
How many Indigenous languages are there?
6,500-7,000
What is TEK?
ecological knowledge of Indigenous societies
What is the IWK?
- Indigenous Weather Knowledge
- Aims to preserve the knowledge of environment and culture embedded in seasonal calendar systems
Ethnometeorology
Crossing between anthropology and meteorology that examines people’s beliefs about weather and seasons
Ethnobotany
- Human evolution and manipulation of plant materials, substances, and phenomena in “primitive or unlettered societies”
- Ex: how Indigenous people process, use, classify, and think about plant life
- Coined in 1895 by John Harshberger
How many species are found in the Amazon rain forests?
30,000
Bioprospecting
characterization of living organisms (plants) in respect to the presence of commercially valuable chemical compounds
What did Deborah Rose Bird coin in her book Dingo Makes Us Human through her interactions with the Yarralin people?
connectivity ontology
Connectivity Ontology
All living and non living things are related
How many Indigenous groups are found in the Philippines archipelago?
110 (10-15% of the population)
